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China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... represents the 18th consecutive month of gains in house prices. Like Australia, Chinese authorities have been taking steps to let the air out of the property market bubble before it burst and create financial instability. The latest house price stats ...

Open data carries privacy risk: ABA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... those consumers to say, 'Ah, look, they're nearly at the end of the loan, or they look like they're struggling right now. Let's offer them another very toxic payday loan,'" she said. Fintech Australia chief executive Danielle Szetho, who also spoke at ...

Robotic stock picking: the future is now

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
The world's largest fund manager has shifted the goal posts for active equity investment, announcing it will take the enormous step of combining humans and machines for stock selection. The question is what scale does this new man and machine combination ...

BlackRock's Fink commends Aussie infrastructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
BlackRock chairman and chief executive Larry Fink has praised Australia's use of private capital in funding infrastructure, and said the US needs to catch up. In his annual letter to shareholders, Fink said the United States trails behind countries ...

Let me down gently

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) must be breathing a sigh of relief at the latest housing finance figures indicating a slowdown in the country's property market. The bubbling Australian property ...

The challenging nature of ethics

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
Initiatives to increase ethics in financial services can be likened to endurance events in the sporting arena. That is the view of Clare Payne - former endurance swimmer and consulting fellow for Ethics in Banking and Finance with The Ethics Centre. ...

Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
It's official. It's signed, sealed and delivered. Making good on the promise she made in October last year, UK prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union formally setting in motion the two-year time limit for negotiations ...

Access to super for housing is still bad policy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... statement released yesterday, shadow treasurer Chris Bowen echoed the industry's calls adding that the government's plan was to let "a thousand stupid thought bubbles bloom." "Early access to superannuation for a home deposit would undermine retirement ...

Actuaries Institute names new president

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... the actuarial profession, she added: "More data, especially on personal health, can now be made available, but how far do we let that determine policy and product development? That's a question industry and the government need to answer." Lyon succeeds ...

Hunter Hall LIC board prepares for April fight

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... "have lost faith in the HHV board to do the right thing." "They ignored my requests and my public letter. They should have let the shareholders decide - I didn't want to have to call an EGM," he added. He also refuted Jensen's suggestion that his motives ...