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Population growth hits 36 year high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
... 184,400 is also running at record highs being the highest level in 19 years. Indeed one of the great ironies during the Howard government's reign was that despite a media focus on refugee asylum policy, immigration during the years 1997-2007 increased ...

MLC group insurance offers real time updates

... updates and downloadable reports to help advisers and insurance brokers who want access to their insurance data 24/7. Andrew Howard, head of group insurance at MLC said the web-based solution would give advisers around the clock access to policy information ...

Westscheme awards $10m private equity mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
... appointed Brandon in the structure called the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund," said Westscheme chief executive, Howard Rosario. According to Rosario, the private equity mandate involves financially backing new research ideas born by Australian ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... Henry's comments follow several damning articles written just prior to the Budget by former senior public servants under the Howard administration regarding how they believe the previous government's macroeconomic and Budget strategies were flawed.

Westscheme tackles ESG with Regnan

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... risks. "For some time now we've been aware that these issues relating to ESG need to be thought about and considered," said Howard Rosario, chief executive of Westscheme. "But under our style of investing, we've continued to hold companies because of ...

Equity markets back in style

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... belief that the world, and especially the United States, is near the bottom of the problems facing the credit market," said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P's. S&P's attributed part of this strong return in confidence to higher returns ...

Attack tax with tact

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... government it lead to the Fringe Benefits Tax and a stepping up of the Capital Gains Tax. A later pruning exercise by the Howard-Costello government then brought us the Goods and Services Tax even though we are still waiting for many of the State taxes ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... military's retirement fund because the proposed changes could disadvantage military service people. In July last year, the Howard Government created a military superannuation review team to analyse ways to enhance the existing super scheme to improve ...

China response has big trade implications

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... that tainted his predecessor. Influential political columnist Laurie Oakes wrote on the weekend that that just as John Howard was accused of being too close to the US, the Prime Minister might end up being accused of being too close to China. The problem ...

Cromwell recruits ex-rugby manager

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... Queensland based property and funds manager Cromwell Group has appointed ex-Australian Rugby Union general manager Pat Howard as chief operations officer. Howard joins Cromwell from his position as general manager of the high performance unit for ARU ...