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Singapore lifts CPF rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... reform package as a major reversal of Singapore's traditional resistance to Western-style welfare state policies, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in his budget speech: "We are strengthening social safety nets, and ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... for the dollar-A's "benign collapse" to happen ensures that this is not happening. Some 'ifs' are even contradictory or in Prime Minister Abbott's words, "oppository". Take the case of the "if the US lifts its rates by mid-2015". The Fed would lift rates ...

Towers Watson sees spike in smart beta uptake

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... started developing the concept in 2000 as part of our work on structured alpha, and then in more detail in 2002 as beta prime." However, he went on to express concern about "the proliferation of products now on the market that claim to be smart beta ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... announcements by Qantas, Telstra and Ford, among others, gave the negativity in the latest jobs numbers an extra kick. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey must be wishing they "could blame it on the sunshine, blame it on the ...

Bowen's FoFA fears "complete rubbish": AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... Services and say that there will never be another financial crisis again, there will never be another Storm, Westpoint or Opes Prime I think I'm setting myself up for a fall because you can't account for all circumstances," Sinodinos told Financial Standard. ...

Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... a host of other Asian countries with lower currency values and wages and operating costs to pick from." Blame it on the Prime Minister Abbott, blame it on unions, blame ourselves for not buying our dogs Camry's but look under the hood and you'd see that ...

Sinodinos defends "speedy" FoFA legislation

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... a move to "get it out there as quickly as possible, and get on with it." "My remit from the Treasurer Joe Hockey and the Prime Minister Tony Abbott is that we get on with our election commitments," he said. This week, as part of its move to wind back ...

Prime Super and HIP to merge

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
Industry superannuation funds Prime Super and Health Industry Plan (HIP) will merge later this year to create a fund with almost $2.4 billion in funds under management and 150,000 members. Under the new arrangement, Prime Super chief executive Lachlan ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat despite a positive lead from Wall Street which withstood a poor durable goods report and a disappointing outlook from Apple that pushed the Nasdaq into the red. At 0820 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share ...

Prime Value AM expands investment team

HARRY PAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
Prime Value Asset Management has appointed former Standard & Poor's James Gunn as a new senior investment analyst. Gunn's role will be to provide bottom-up research including financial analysis, modelling of companies, company and industry report writing. ...