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CHOICE wants commissions banned

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... launched an inquiry three months ago to review financial products and services following the collapse of Storm Financial, Opes Prime and Westpoint. The consumer body is also calling on the public to write to them about their experiences with their financial ...

Fully sick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... because they think that it would be hard up in repaying its mounting deficit. If not banks would not be foreclosing on sub-prime borrowers. Debt repayment signals that institutions are healthy enough to stand without government crutch. It signals that ...

Superannuation wins in Cabinet reshuffle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... resignation of the 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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... Europe's main stock markets slid in cautious trading, with London dragged down by the banking sector and worries over British Prime Minister Gordon Brown battling to stay in power. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed down 33.34 points, or ...

Raise SG to 15 pc: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... in retirement," he said. Altering SG contributions has certainly been a hot topic of late. Last month, former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating said lowering SG to stimulate the economy would be a disaster. "The moment you tell a political system ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... and Energy 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 ...

Australian RMBS gains appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... RMBS are swiftly gaining traction. "RMBS have been highly damaged through all the problems in the US and through the sub-prime noise," said Selby. "But the US mortgage pools are very different form Australian mortgage pools, and if you look at the details ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
If you think Australia is having strange debates about how the government should spend GFC stimulus money to pump prime the economy, wait until you hear what they are arguing about in China. China is one of the last bastions of publicly acceptable cigarette ...

Budget deficit squeezes pension promises

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... deficit tipped to exceed $50 billion accompanied by a blow-out in the government's borrowing requirement is threatening the Prime Minister's promise to boost age pensions in next month's budget. Following last year's budget there was an outcry from pensioner ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... cents a share against US$13 cents. This is good unless of course the US government has filled their beds with all of the sub-prime borrowers that have lost their homes. There are so many of them that Marriott could not house them all. Host Hotels & Resorts ...