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Prime Super will not appoint HIP directors to board

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... the week with local economic news and many corporate events," he said. "The biggest data out today is the official employment figures. Also Chinese trade data for April could influence what the miners do later this afternoon." National Australia Bank ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... looked good, but data also showed that wages did not increase, which showed there was still plenty of slack in the US employment market. The US Labor Department said on Friday that nonfarm payrolls surged 288,000 last month, the largest gain since January ...

CommInsure launches tailored SMSF insurance product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... 'any occupation' definition, that says a person due to an injury or illness will be unlikely ever to engage in gainful employment based on their education, training or experience." This rule, Scott said, is likely to make it much more difficult for unskilled ...

Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... (Reuters); "U.S. Stocks Retreat as Ukraine Tensions Overshadow Jobs" (Bloomberg). Well sort of. This is because the US employment report remains ambivalent at best. It was good. US companies added a bigger-than-expected 288,000 to their payrolls in March ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has opened flat as cautious traders wait for the release of key employment figures in the US. IG market strategist Chris Weston said it had been a lacklustre start to the morning following a mixed lead overnight. He said ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... federal funds rate, the Committee will assess progress--both realized and expected--toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2 percent inflation. This assessment will take into account a wide range of information, including measures of labor market ...

AustralianSuper consortium picks up QLD motorways for $7bn

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... serve Brisbane's commuters. It comes with CPI-linked pricing and its use is underpinned by a robust population and employment outlook for south east Queensland," he said. Delaney reinforced the fund's commitment to investing in infrastructure. "Further ...

Knight Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... short-term interest rates below levels" that are "likely to prove normal in the longer run". "The larger the shortfall of employment or inflation from their respective objectives, and the slower the projected progress toward those objectives, the longer ...

IPA calls for repeal of 10% rule

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... concessional contributions into their superannuation. Currently if a taxpayer earns more than 10% of their total income from employment services they are unable to make personal concessional contributions to their superannuation from other sources of ...