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ASIC ramps up market surveillance

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... Market Surveillance, which won the tender, and is to be installed for 1 July 2010. The appointment follows the Federal Government's decision in August 2009 that ASIC assume the market surveillance function from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). ...

Military Super reforms under senate scrutiny

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
The senate is holding an inquiry into military and civilian superannuation reforms proposed by the Federal Government - including the management merger of civilian and military schemes. The shadow minister for veterans' affairs, Louise Markus, and the ...

Public policy to reshape investment risk: PIMCO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... services shadow minister Luke Hartsuyker reinforced this view in a media speech in Sydney this month. He said the Federal Government's long list of financial market reviews has curtailed investor confidence in the system. El-Erian, who is visiting Australia ...

New chapter in savings after government guarantee ends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... superannuation investments, this will benefit a large number of Australian investors." In October 2008, the Federal Government announced it would guarantee bank deposits offered by banks, credit unions and building societies for up to three years. Yesterday ...

Alternatives by any other name

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... investments weren't invested in bank deposits but other assets such as floating rate notes and credit. The Federal Government's $66 billion Future Fund defines alternative investments differently to Cerulli's findings. The fund defines alternative assets ...

AIST and VU unveil graduate course

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... industry is currently being considered by Cooper Review into superannuation, which is due to report back to the Federal Government later this year. AIST chief executive Fiona Reynolds said while research showed that the level of professional qualifications ...

Eslake joins Wingate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... Australia. He also worked as a chief economist at McIntosh Securities. In addition, Eslake is a member of three Federal Government advisory panels including the World Trade Organisation Advisory Group, the Trade Policy Advisory Council and the Foreign ...

Jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... also spend, just not as much as the full-timers. But they too will add to demand and spending. So why does the Federal Government continue to insist that, "Houston we have a problem?" Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Employment Julia Gillard welcomed ...

ETFs slash fund fees to 15bp

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... Traded Funds (ETF) to deliver total fees of just 0.15 per cent. Thrift is a US pension fund used by four million federal government civilian and uniformed employees. It has $A220 billion under management. With about 80 per cent of US federal workers ...

Disability review assesses role of insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
The Federal Government has announced a feasibility study into disability care and support services, which will review how a new system could co-exist with the injury insurance industry. The government's Productivity Commission is investigating the cost ...