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BEAR regime must extend entire industry: Medcraft

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... step in the right direction - though it may not go far enough, ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft said. Speaking at a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event in Sydney yesterday, Medcraft said holding individuals within major organisations to account for their actions ...

UniSuper brings investment option in-house

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... base. The fund had previously voiced its aim to manage between 35 and 40% of its assets by 2018, however Silk noted at a Reuters Newsmaker event, that it could expand to 50% or more in coming years. At least 10 large Australian superannuation funds have ...

Industry fund makes tech play to combat unpaid super

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... Industry Digital Engagement Study Looking to the future, AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk told the audience at a Reuters Newsmaker event last week that the next five years will see artificial intelligence come into play. "About five years ago ...

In-house investment bears fruit for AustralianSuper

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... between 35 and 40% of its assets by 2018, however Silk noted it could expand to 50% or more in coming years. Speaking at a Reuters Newsmaker event in Sydney yesterday, Silk said the fund's assets grew by 18% in 2016 and it currently has about $120 billion ...

Low-flation to lower-flation?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... tone sent the US dollar index to its lowest level in 14 months that, in turn, is boosting commodity prices - the Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity CRB Commodity Total Return Index has risen to its highest level since May this year. Both are supportive of ...

Global reinsurer adopts ESG framework

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... investment behaviour and set the right measurement both from a performance and ESG perspective." Despite the move, Furer told Reuters it will not be diverting investments away from any particular industries or companies as it is difficult to maintain ...

Industry fund appoints two directors

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
... director at Paypal, she worked in a number of senior leadership and marketing roles at Westpac, BT Financial Group and Reuters London. The appointments follow the rolling out of a new corporate strategy earlier this year, which included the addition ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... 27 March before easing back to US$1.0685 as members of the ECB's governing council went on damage control. According to Reuters, an unnamed official "in or close to the Governing Council" claims that the ECB's 9 March message had been "overinterpreted". ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... Forbes considered it appropriate to increase Bank Rate by 25 basis points". While Kristin is due to leave the BOE in June, Reuters reports that "some others said it would not take much for them to follow suit". Looking at the UK's macro-economy, Kristin ...

One small rise in rates, one giant step towards normalisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... fell by 1.1% and the yield on 10-year US Treasuries fell by 10 bps to 2.5%. And oh, commodity prices also soared. The Reuters/Jefferies CRB index closed 1.7% higher signalling optimism over global growth. All these because fairy godmother Janet Yellen ...