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Labor questions APRA independence

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... with a union or employer body deemed to be from the same gene pool. Yet four in five directors from bank owned funds are finance industry insiders," Whiteley said.

FSU secretary and executive reach impasse

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
Finance Sector Union (FSU) national secretary Fiona Jordan is expected to know more about her future today after making seething comments on the union's executive earlier this week. The FSU's national executive is reported to be meeting today and is ...

Industry super warns against uniform laws

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... are unnecessary and unjustified. It wants the government to focus on governance problems in other parts of the finance sector instead of tackling its funds, which are governed by boards evenly made up of union members and employer groups. "We would caution ...

Australian stock market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... Bank's monthly business survey for May are due out. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will also release its housing finance data for April. In Australia, the stock market on Friday had its worst weekly performance in three years, with a massive $75 ...

Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... index fell 0.79 per cent as the tense stand off between heavily indebted Greece and its creditors hung over a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven nations in Germany. Locally on Friday, HIA releases its new home sales and the Reserve ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... cent lower to 4,751.95 points. The Greek market, however, crashed 3.83 per cent, closing at 859.70 points after eurozone finance ministers began a key meeting over Athens' controversial proposals to overhaul its bailout from international creditors. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... and giving rise to fears that the country could exit the eurozone -- what is being dubbed a "Grexit". The country's new finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, will visit three European Union capitals next week to push the government's agenda for a renegotiated ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... March, Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos was forced to step aside due to his involvement in an ICAC investigation. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann took over, sought more consultation and took FoFA through yet another Senate inquiry. In June, the ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... United States and European Union agreed to expand restrictions against Moscow, targeting the Russian energy, defence and finance sectors. Russian markets, however, rallied around 2.0 per cent as investors breathed a sigh of relief that sanctions were ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... The EU, which had been more reluctant than the US to boost its sanctions against Russia, imposed new restrictions on the finance, defence and energy sectors to increase the economic cost to Russia for its intervention in Ukraine. The US followed with ...