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Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... had to have...again. There is no doubt that a recession - even a mild one - would take its toll on families and the population. But a recession is needed to weed the excesses out of the system -- to correct the economic imbalances and the financial incentives ...

Refine board succession: AIST

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... than 76 per cent of trustees on super fund boards aged over 50 - most of them male," she said. "With other half the population being female, it's vital that women's voice are heard, not only in corporate Australia, but in the management of Australia's ...

Mobile phone banking on the way

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... institution and one telecom operator, Vodafone. The public liked it so much that today, around 70 per cent of the Austrian population are using their mobile phones as their 'virtual bank', with all the leading banks in Austria offering the service. The ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... catastrophe. The World Health Organisation has raised the alert level from 3 to 4 - the highest being 6 where the human population is all but vapourised. Not surprisingly, the media has latched onto the outbreak and peppers their commentaries with the ...

US fixed interest SRI beats market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... managers have to communicate that providing return is paramount, and that SRI funds are competitive with the larger population of funds."

Russell slashes Aust jobs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... reductions will come from a variety of sources and include the difficult step of reducing the size of our associate population by approximately 20 per cent by year end."

The Indians are coming

WITH THESHEET.COM.AU  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... Australia, told the Herald Sun that the initial target group of Bank of Baroda will be the large non-resident Indian (NRI) population in Australia, which he estimated at more than 150,000. NRIs are attractive to financial institutions because of their ...

ING unveils CGT calculator

RUTH LIEW AND MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... Other features include inbuilt validations and calculators to help streamline the online transaction process and pre-population of key client and adviser information into forms. There is also Xplan data feed enhancements. According to Mark Pankhurst ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... economics, we studied about the 'trickle down effect' where if you take care of the top, it trickles down to the rest of the population. Trouble for President Obama and AIG is teh reverse seems to be happening. The rest of the population is taking care ...

Jobless rate in perspective

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... since November 1976.' It was 5.1 per cent then (last month the ABS revised this to 5.2 per cent when it changed its population benchmark). The day's news also revealed that after holding interest rates steady at 5.25 per cent for 15 consecutive months ...