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Right to choice must balance costs of choosing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
Choice is important but not if it imposes too many administration costs or forces people who don't want to choose to make un-informed choices. "While the Government is committed to the rights of members to choose their own super fund, we are also committed ...

No fee rises until 2011: Hostplus

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... a guarantee since the start of the global financial crisis. The fund's decision follows last week's 100 basis points interest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of Australia. David Elia, chief executive of Hostplus, said the decision was unanimously approved ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... the economy recovers, compulsory contributions progressively increase to 12 per cent. Unsurprisingly, superannuation interest groups have rejected the proposal, though interestingly, not its economic argument. "At a time when the average superannuation ...

Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... that as soon as the economy recovers, compulsory contributions progressively increase to 12 per cent. Superannuation interest groups have rejected the proposal, though interestingly, not its economic argument. "At a time when the average superannuation ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... Negatively. This time it's different. This time it is the arteries of the financial system that is blocked. This time US interest rates are very close to becoming inutile. This time the US government is drowning in deficit. This means that many of the ...

Scary Money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
And the race is on -- the race to zero interest rates. The way major central banks are going, benchmark target rates could hit the big fat 0 before Easter 2009. Following the Reserve Bank of Australia's 100 basis point interest rate reduction early ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... NZSX-50 index closed up 23.89, or 0.88 per cent, at 2,730.68 points, after the New Zealand Reserve Bank slashed official interest rates by 150 basis points.

Daily unit pricing not the answer: Henaghan

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... Meanwhile some adviser groups have also acknowledged that DUP may not be the answer, and may not always operate in the best interest of their clients. Rick Di Cristoforo, managing director of Matrix Financial Planning Group, told the Financial Standard ...

You are what you Google

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Among the top finance term searches on Google this year were 'superannuation', 'interest rates' and 'investment banks' but as to which keyword was more popular than the other changed state by state, according to Google Australia. The world's largest ...

Filled half-empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... no contribution during the quarter. Recall that it was only in early September that the Reserve Bank started cutting interest rates, 25 basis points at that. Consumers lived through the other two months that made up the third quarter worrying more about ...