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APRA tweaks insurance in super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... additionally identified a major risk for both insurers and super funds stemming from poor data quality and put the industry on notice that standards should be higher. Although the SuperStream initiatives will improve the quality of data available to ...

QBE chief to part with $37 million

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... O'Halloran - who headed up QBE for 14 years - will be paid his salary up to 28 August to officially serve out his six month notice period, after which he will receive cash and shares, and a retirement allowance that could be worth as much as $37 million ...

Vision Super issues shortfall liability notices

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
Local Victorian councils have received notification of the individual liabilities they face to cover the $400 million shortfall on a Vision Super defined benefit scheme. Each local authority's liability is determined on the number of active members ...

ASIC calls for kill-switch

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
ASIC has called for brokers to have direct control over filters and automated controls to suspend HFT orders and/or systems in the wake of US trading firm Knight Capital's disaster earlier this month. "Recent events overseas are a reminder of the speed ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... blowing on their tail, chances are the uptrend that started in the middle of 2012 would proceed. In case you failed to notice, despite warnings upon warnings that doomsday is nigh, equity markets are slowly crawling on the up and up. The MSCI World Index ...

Keynes & Riccardo on display

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
Financial markets sit and wait while the CBs meet. No one wants to be whipsawed either way. Not even the headlines... if anybody noticed. There is not the usual sensationalism that goes with each daily move in the markets - dragging out all the negative ...

"Bad apples" slipping through the cracks: ASIC

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
The corporate regulator has put licensees on notice, saying there is growing concern that "bad apples" in the industry are slipping through the cracks because of poor reference checking when advisers swap between groups. At the Association of Financial ...

Much ado, no do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
Move on people, get going, nothing to see here. Wall Street went home happy last night despite Uncle Ben's much-anticipated semi-annual testimony before the US Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs being a non-event - a maintenance ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... IMF's projections - or should I say, changes in projections - along with the performance of the S&P 500 index say, you'll notice that they move in opposite directions. Let's start from the very beginning, a very good place to start. On 25 October 2007 ...

Is this the crisis moment?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... highly uncertain given that it's the political factor that forms a big chunk toward the resolution of the European crisis. Notice that these days markets jump or dive more based on political statements - what a certain politician from a certain country ...