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MLC improves Business Super insurance

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
MLC has improved the firm's MasterKey Business Super insurance by extending the insurable age, adding automatic death, total and permanent disability (TPD) cover and refining income protection definitions. The enhanced insurance means members can access ...

MLC takes earnings hit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
NAB-owned wealth management arm MLC reduced its workforce by 5.4 per cent in the six months to March as bad markets and lower management fees took their toll on half-year earnings. In an ASX half-year statement released this morning, NAB announced that ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
You've been warned, Australia! Standard & Poor's and Moody's threatened Australia with a downgrade in its sovereign risk rating if the National Budget remains in deficit over the medium term. My, oh my, I am so scared. And so we all should be. Because ...

Budget deficit squeezes pension promises

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... reforms that saw contributions double in 2006-07 as high income earners poured money into self-managed super funds and master trusts to beat the deadlines. "A pensioner is not out there earning $150,000 a year. There is a question about fairness in Australia ...

Platforms should merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Master trusts and wraps should be consolidated into a single government run platform to drive greater efficiencies and lowers costs. Wade Tubman, a director, and Annie Liao, a senior manager in the actuarial practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, told ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US stocks gained as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner reassured investors about bank balance sheets. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 35 points ...

Bonus hocus pocus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
... emerging public consensus, that a greater percentage of overall compensation come from fixed base salary." According to BA Master of the Universe Brian Moynihan, traders and other employees' salaries outside the investment bank would be adjusted so that ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
True to script, history has not failed us. Like in most episodes following widespread market upheavals, increased regulation makes a comeback for an encore. Taking advantage of the global disgust at the rapid erosion of wealth caused by 'inventive' ...

Macq Funds adds two Aus eq analysts

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
Macquarie Funds Group has added two fundamental analysts to its Australian equities team. Andy Kovacs, who previously led Macquarie Securities' food and beverage sector research team, joins the Australian equities unit as senior analyst. In his new ...

SuperChoice buys SuperConnect

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... contributions to the superannuation provider without manual intervention. SuperConnect's software is currently used by public offer master trusts, industry super funds, employer groups directly and payroll bureaus including Australian Wealth Management ...