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Westpac's Kelly signs UN water mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly is steering one of Australia's largest banking and wealth management groups to a more sustainable future when she signed the United National Global Compact (UNGC) CEO Water Mandate. The mandate is an international ...

FBI sting catches $2.4bn mortgage fraud

... securities fraud. In an investigative operation called 'Operation Malicious Mortgage', nine government agencies including the US Secret Service, US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and the US Postal Inspection Service all joined forces to catch individuals ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
It happens to house prices, shares prices, currency markets, in wage negotiations and now it's happening to oil prices. The speculators have moved in and pushed prices way above where they should be. Shane Oliver, chief economist and chief investment ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
People arguing that Australia should relax its inflation targets are peculiar and misguided, argues Ken Henry, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
The Australian share market has had a positive lead from Wall Street, but lower metals prices in London could prove a dampener today. At 0740 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the June share price index was down 15 points at 5,956. In economics news ...

ASEAN's mute economic muscle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
The near invisible response of ASEAN to the Myanmar disaster highlights how despite all the talk of the world realigning economically, the Asia-Pacific region still point to the West for the heavy global lifting. ASEAN, or the Association of South East ...

US regulation review models Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The US is moving to an upgraded financial system regulatory model that should remind Australian wealth managers of the debate we had a decade ago during the Wallis Report. Central to the proposed reforms that seem to suggest Australia has become somewhat ...

US Treasury to announce regulatory overhaul

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
The US Treasury Department has proposed sweeping changes to how their financial markets should be regulated by consolidating its huge number of regulators and bringing practices up top date to what happens around the world. The New York Times has reported ...

We knew it all along: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
While Treasury boss Ken Henry long ago knew what was wrong with the economy and what problems the previous government's policies were causing, he apparently didn't have the political influence and muscle to do much about it. Speaking at the Ian Little ...

Allco defends move

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
Allco Finance Group (AFG) has stated it complied with its Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) obligation to announce a Review Event following negotiations to refinance its debt. The firm outlined that its facility agreement for its $900 million senior ...