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We just don't organise anymore

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... continues a long established trend. The trend sends mixed signals however as the fall is routinely much faster during times of Labor governments perhaps because workers become comfortable the federal government will look after them. Reinforcing this ...

Choice system to cost $90m: CitiStreet

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... productive money and data exchange across the whole superannuation system. A "Super 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 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... market fallout and increasing the allure of riskier assets. WASHINGTON - US consumers cut their spending in February and the labor market continued to weaken, suggesting the pillar that had supported the economy's expansion may be giving way. AMSTERDAM ...

Household wealth breaks through $5 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... stepping up for 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.

Stagflation cross-winds

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... Chairman Ben Bernanke admitted price pressures could make it harder for the Fed to ensure the economy keeps growing. Based on Labor Department figures consumer prices in the US jumped 0.4 per cent in January and are close to a 16-year high of 4.3 per ...

We knew it all along: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... these were 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.

US dominoes keep falling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... domestic product held up well through the third quarter despite the financial turmoil, but it has since slowed sharply. Labor market conditions have similarly softened, as job creation has slowed and the unemployment rate - at 4.9 percent in January ...

Sunsuper appoints board member

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
Sunsuper has appointed Ron Monaghan, Queensland president of the Australian Labor Party, to director of the company's board. Monaghan was elected general secretary of the Queensland Council of Unions in November last year. He remains a board director ...

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 ...

Too little too late

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... expected to be a threshold issue for the Reserve Bank. There are no hard specifics as to where savings will come from, but Labor expects spending cuts to deliver a budget surplus of $17.9 billion. Labor's plans to address the home-ownership affordability ...