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Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting..." -- Walt Whitman "The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee at its meeting today voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to maintain the stock of purchased assets ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... 0.74 per cent to 10,004 points, while the CAC 40 in Paris climbed 0.72 per cent to 4,563.04 points. The Fed's policy committee decided to cut a further $US10 billion from the US cental bank's monthly bond-buying, known as quantitative easing (QE), and ...

Easy CBs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... Rate, the earlier it might be necessary to start tightening policy". Then again, perhaps not yet for the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is also wary that a premature tightening could derail the recovery - especially given sterling's strength (my two ...

BT reveals post-awards strategy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
BT Financial Group will pitch its MySuper product to at least 30,000 employers via Westpac's business bank should the government proceed with its plan to take superannuation out of modern awards. Vicki Doyle, head of corporate and retail super at BT ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... minutes of the US Federal Reserve's last meeting and focus on profit taking. The minutes of the Fed's late October policy committee meeting suggests the US cental bank could scale back its stimulus program "in coming months" as the labour market improves. ...

ASFA reshuffles board, appoints new chair

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... Jim Minto is the board's new chair. Minto has been an ASFA director since November 2009 and chair of the Board Policy Committee since 2012. Minto's appointment follows Tony Lally's resignation from the ASFA board in October 2013 after four years as chair. ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... reverse -- the gathering recovery before it becomes sustainable. A dilemma no better stated by the BOE's monetary policy committee member Ben Broadbent: "We want to ensure that this recovery continues...and is not choked off by a premature rise in interest ...

AIST restructures policy department with key appointments

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... AIST David Haynes has been appointed executive manager of Policy and research, while former member of AIST's policy committee Karen Volpato is now senior policy advisor. Haynes was project director at AIST since 2010 and is a former head of Industry ...

New UK fin services watchdog polls public

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... is essentially a 'twin peak' model very similar to Australia's, consisting of the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority. In a discussion paper the FCA has suggested a range ...

Policy team reshuffles at ASFA

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has restructured its policy team after the departure last year of policy manager Margaret Stewart. Last week the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said that after Stewart left ...