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Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... Australia will remain jittery. More pain is to come. In its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO), the Federal Government cut its GDP growth forecast to 2.0 per cent, from a previous forecast of 2.75 per cent for fiscal year 2008/2009. The government ...

First home buyers tap $21k bonus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
... related websites, including our own, are being flooded with interest from these sources." Nielsen credited the Federal Government's increase in the first home buyers' grant to $14,000 as well as $21,000 for those purchasing newly constructed homes as ...

Government pumps $500m into Members Equity

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
Industry Super Fund-owned Members Equity Bank has received a $500 million injection following the Federal Government's Australian Office of Financial Management's investment in its super members' home loans RMBS. In a media statement released by MEB ...

Mortgage trusts face crisis of confidence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... who now have to decide whether to stay put or bail out before more mortgage trusts freeze redemptions. The federal government's bank deposit guarantee scheme will go a long way in restoring investor confidence in banks but it also has far-reaching, and ...

GRI sets up Australian base

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... importance of trusted, responsible and sustainable business process has never been greater. The Australian Federal Government, through Treasury, already pledged $2 million to St James Ethics Centre. "The Rudd Government this year provided funding of ...

Challenger squeezes redemptions

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... significant increases in fund outflows. Challenger's investors have been retrieving their investments following the Federal Government's introduction of an unlimited bank deposit guarantee. The Challenger Howard Mortgage Fund, Challenger Howard Wholesale ...

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... expected to lower borrowing rates again despite yesterday's high CPI result. In true Keynesian fashion, the Federal Government has dipped into its surplus and is giving spending money to pensioners and first homebuyers and guaranteeing bank deposits. ...

AMP saves more in pension

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... phase. AMP joins a range of other groups that have combined their super and pension products together since the Federal Government introduced key legislation to make super 'simpler' to manage. In fact there's been a growth spurt of pension product developments ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... was buoyed by the biggest percentage gain on Wall Street overnight since the Great Depression and news of the federal government's $10.4 billion stimulus package for the Australian economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 154.5 points, or 3.7 per ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... contract rose 128 points to 4182, on a volume of 23,435 contracts. Man Financial broker Anthony Anderson said the federal government's guarantee of bank deposits had boosted investor confidence. "There is more confidence today and that is helping hold ...