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Japanese consumers a tad more confident

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... despite the latest improvement (and after more than one year of QQE2), confidence remains far below the levels reached after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assumed leadership back in December 2012 and those following the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) launch of QQE. ...

Prime Super awards insurance mandate to CommInsure

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
Prime Super has appointed CommInsure as its new group insurer following a competitive tender process. The partnership takes effect on 1 May 2016. "This is an exciting change to the group life insurance arrangements for Prime Super. Our goals in undertaking ...

Venture capital is back in vogue

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
During a week where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has put Australia's innovation in the spotlight and offered more incentives for angel investors, there is a feeling venture capital is back in vogue. Corporate lawyer and MinterEllison partner Riccardo ...

Blue Sky to raise $200m for new VC fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... while balanced and later stage companies received just $84.6 million. The Government's recent reforms package announced in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's Innovation Statement was also aimed at early stage angel investment. Assistant Minister for Innovation ...

Economist says innovation one small part of growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... economic and market outlook at a media briefing yesterday, Standard Life Investments chief economist Jeremy Lawson said Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faced significant challenges in lifting both fiscal and potential growth. "I think he's [Turnbull] ...

First State Super hitches cart to Turnbull innovation

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... to Blackbird Ventures in September. The new partnership was launched at fintech hub Stone and Chalk with guests including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison and Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer, as well as Assistant Innovation ...

PIMCO appoints world leaders to advisory board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... developments. The board will be chaired by former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The other board members are former UK Prime Minister and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, and former European Central Bank president and chairman ...

Industry welcomes Innovation Statement

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... have been enthusiastically welcomed by the financial services industry and beyond. Among a package of reforms introduced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra yesterday were tax breaks for early stage investors, an incubator support program ...

Catholic Super chief addresses climate conference

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... COP21 event with more than 200 world leaders to deliver a global commitment to climate change. At the event New Zealand Prime Minister John Key led a discussion on the cost of fossil fuel subsidies which are estimated to be around $500 billion according ...

The GFC is still among us: Varoufakis

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... Republican Party to the extreme anarchists of Barcelona." However, "I decided to resign on the night of the 5 July because my Prime Minister surrendered."