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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... Thursday, which showed a steady unemployment rate. "Following on from yesterday's confidence given by (Prime Minister Kevin) Rudd who has concerns about employment and will keep the stimulus for as long as need be," he said. Energy and mining stocks ...

Apostle adds to client service team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... those companies taking on new business." She said Hill joining the firm means Debbie Alliston, investment director, Mary-Jane Rudd, client relations manager, can work closer with the firm's investment managers.

Super must become more efficient: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in his latest essay said superannuation should become more efficient and improve its net investment returns. In a widely publicised 6000 word manifesto, the Prime Minister has outlined his views of the economy and his plans ...

Superannuation wins in Cabinet reshuffle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... accident prone Joel Fitzgibbon as Minister of Defence last week was just the trigger, it took only two days for Prime Minister Rudd to announce changes so sweeping that today twenty government ministers were required at Government House to be sworn into ...

Instos win $5.5m in sustainable grants

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... government grants to make the firms' invested properties more sustainable. The grants were awarded last week as part of the Rudd Government's Green Building Fund which paid more than $29 million to 89 different projects. The Green Building fund aims ...

Fed's unfunded liabilities balloon to $80bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... liabilities surging faster than anticipated sets up a potential flashpoint between the Future Fund's board of guardians and the Rudd government because while the fund is widely expected to be a major financier behind some of the government's national ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Union (CMFEU) and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), have written a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister Rudd appealing for him to abandon his plan. While not rejecting the government's fiscal argument outright about rising longevity ...

Pension age lift under fire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
When the Rudd government announced it wants all students under age 20 to stay in education unless they find a job, hardly anyone complained. But its announcement to marginally lift the pension preservation age is creating a furore. In Tuesday night's ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Generally positive reactions by wealth managers to the second Rudd-Swan federal budget indicate the industry increasingly knows its place in the political landscape. Driving the mooted reaction is how kind the Treasurer Wayne Swan was to the superannuation ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... would be suffering from Budget diarrhea. For there is no escape...everywhere you turn, it's Budget 2009 - the second for the Rudd Government and the first in contemporary Australian history of a tough one. Those were the days. Previous Federal Budgets ...