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AusSuper drives MEB review

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
Members Equity Bank is to be subjected to a strategic review of its direction by its four largest industry fund shareholders. Melbourne consultants LEK have been contracted by AustralianSuper, Cbus, HESTA and Host Plus in the wake of three new board ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... 2010," said an upbeat Richard Gilbert, IFSA chief executive. "The clear message to the world is that the new Labor Government is serious in working to enable Australia to continue to develop as a major financial services centre in the region," he said. ...

Macq predicts SG to top 9pc

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... current 9 per cent under the Rudd Government, predicts a head strategist at Macquarie. Pointing out that it was the Labor government that set the wheels of the present super regime turning in 1986, Macquarie Research Equities head strategist Neale Goldston-Morris ...

We just don't organise anymore

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
Despite the successful fight to overthrow WorkChoices and the explosive growth of industry super funds, union membership just keeps getting worse. The ABS has just released figures showing trade union membership is down to only 13.7 per cent of employees ...

Choice system to cost $90m: CitiStreet

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... Clearing House" was proposed by the Federal Labor Party in mid 2006 and is currently on the agenda of the new Labor Government. A key aim of the proposed scheme is to provide a single central payments hub for all super contributions - to substantially ...

Household wealth breaks through $5 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... compulsory superannuation contributions to be pushed from 9 to 15 per cent following the election of the Rudd Labor government, the continued strength of the substitution savings effect will not go unnoticed.

We knew it all along: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... the problems then no doubt they have been working on the policy solutions just as long. A more receptive Rudd labor government may have just found their political salvation.

Fed Govt creates financial services task force

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
The Rudd Labor Government has called on senior government officials to form the Financial Services Working Group, aimed at dealing with financial services advice and disclosure issues. The Financial Services Working Group includes senior officers from ...

Sub-prime not such a CAD after all

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... income account, but the trade balance remains in deficit," they noted in their report. Well at least the NSW labor government wants to sell their electricity system to the Chinese, which would be a welcome boost to managing the CAD notwithstanding that ...

BRICs to surge as G7 slows

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... 5-10 indices for each country and 224 series in total. The good news is the OECD may not be tipping the Rudd Labor government to lead us into recession, but they are saying Rudd will have to create his own economic luck if he is to repeat the Howard ...