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Prime Super will not appoint HIP directors to board

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014

Action! in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi appears to have dragged out his promised action on monetary policy long enough. While the ECB announced no changes in monetary policy after its Governing Council meeting last night - the benchmark rate at ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... while Linfox chief executive Michael Byrne is to speak at a lunch in Sydney. The Paydirt South Australia resources conference continues in Adelaide. The market on Tuesday closed higher, with the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index adding 19.2 points, or 0.35 ...

Mother doesn't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... leading indicators of the labour market are equally ambivalent - there's also the good and the bad. For instance, the Conference Board's latest consumer confidence report shows the percentage of consumers who think that jobs would be hard to get in the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... IRESS and Ausenco have annual general meetings. And Rio Tinto's head of iron ore, Andrew Harding, is to speak at a conference at the University of WA. In Australia, the market on Wednesday had a flat session as investors supported mining stocks, offsetting ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... underway. At 0805 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was was up 19 points at 5,496. The US' Conference Board's index of consumer confidence dipped to 82.3 in April, below the 83.6 forecast by analysts. But, the S&P/Case-Shiller ...

Nominations open for AFA Excellence in Education Award

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... nominations for the seventh AFA Excellence in Education Award, which will be presented in October at the AFA National Conference in Cairns. The award recognises advisers who invest in themselves, their staff and their business, to raise professional ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... should not guarantee financial institutions," Murray told the Committee of Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) conference in Sydney. "Then, who of us would have thought, before 2008, that the Australian Government would one day have to guarantee ...

FSC lobbies against super "7 year gap"

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... consider raising their pension ages during a speech in 'The Global Age of Responsibility, Reinventing Bretton Woods Conference,' in Washington this week. Hockey's words reinvigorated the debate about the potential for lifting the pension age to 70. Commenting ...

Protection needed if pension age increased: AIST

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... protect older Australians who are unable to work longer. The statement follows a speech by Treasurer Joe Hockey during a conference in Washington. Hockey said that the number of retirees in Australia will double over the next few decades and referred ...