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HOSTPLUS sponsors Gold Coast AFL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... it in the sports pages. That is where our members are likely to go," he said in August last year. The industry super fund isn't the only financial services firm gaining exposure from football codes; Members Equity Bank announced a three-year advertising ...

Plato receives $20m inflow

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... announced it is keeping the ban on covered short selling of financial securities until the end of May. Yet Hamson said the ban isn't affecting the strategy's ability to perform. "Hopefully we're getting close to the time where the powers that be will ...

Make love not leverage

... of the meltdown in the global financial system. Their disgust is clearly displayed on the placards they waved. 'Capitalism isn't working'. 'Make love, not leverage'. 'Eat the Bankers'. 'Banker, rhymes with ?'. But thousands of kilometers away across ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... plans to set-up a big all-encompassing regulator whose job it is to wag its fingers and say, 'No, no...you must be dreaming!' Isn't capitalism's embracement of the doctrine of laissez faire what created the progress and advances that the world now enjoys? ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... the President as Republicans are now warning they won't support funding for future stimulus packages if the AIG bonus furore isn't dealt with.

AIG: 100 per cent GFC proof

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... well and good if the money is used as it was intended to be - to restore liquidity and recapitalise AIG. We now know that it isn't and hence Obama's statement. Obama is trying to find a way to rescind AIG's contractual obligation to pay US$165 million ...

Efficiency and social equity best way to fix super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... board on how the increase would be paid for," said the Australian Institute of Trustees (AIST) and the Industry Super Network (ISN) in their joint submission. "We need a more equitable system that gives low income earners a better deal - both whilst ...

Insurance taxes should be slashed: NIBA

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... year after the NSW Government changes the State Emergency Service levy, which then increases the NSW stamp duty. "Insurance isn't a sin. They shouldn't be able to tax insurance at the same rate they do alcohol, or tobacco or gambling," said Pettersen. ...

AMP holds LPT strategy, wins mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
Global property securities fund manager, AMP Capital Redding Investors isn't changing its listed property strategies and continues to win mandates while the listed property sector continues to under-perform. Kim Redding, AMP Capital Redding Investors ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... Anderson said. "There's uncertainty about the Rio deal and Chinalco said the funding will be daunting. "The government approval isn't a given either." QBE shares slumped $2.07, or 10.86 per cent, to $16.99. Fellow insurer Suncorp-Metway fell 49 cents ...