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Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... industry increasingly knows its place in the political landscape. Driving the mooted reaction is how kind the Treasurer Wayne Swan was to the superannuation industry which was quietly fearing a back lash against the high cost of the tax concessions that ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... Federal Budgets handed down - especially towards the second half of the Howard Government and into now Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan's first - provided dwindling interest among Australians. And this is mainly, how much taxes would be cut, how much benefits ...

Budget me a recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... taxes for those earning ?100,000 and up next year. Chances are Australia's budget would be the same. Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has already prepped the populace, warning that the budget would be 'hard' and 'unpopular' when he releases it on the 12th ...

Finance job market to recover by 2010

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... unemployment figures to rise to 8 per cent next year. Following the IMF's gloomy forecasts for the global economy, Treasury Wayne Swan last week did not rule out the possibility of Australian unemployment figures hitting double digits in the midst of ...

Budget deficit squeezes pension promises

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... contributions deductibility. The biggest fear was that the government would wipe out dividend imputation, but Treasurer Wayne Swan this week dismissed this concern. Taxation expenditures are estimated by Treasury to amount to $26 billion, or 69 per cent ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... accomplish? I am talking, of course, about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and our very own Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan. What do they have in common? Both still have not learned their lessons. Both want more pain. Let's take that international ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... people think the banks can be bastards. And the challenge I am setting for the NAB is to lift our game." Treasurer Wayne Swan this morning saying banks need a "kick up the bum" however suggests no one in the banking industry took the speech too seriously. ...

Govt move aids planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... money invested in the market. Yesterday, minister for superannuation and corporate law, Nick Sherry, and treasurer, Wayne Swan, announced the relief would apply for the second half of 2008-2009 and occur through a 50 per cent reduction in the minimum ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was down 163 points at 3,235. In news this Thursday, federal treasurer Wayne Swan addresses the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce in Sydney. In Melbourne, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... governor Ric Battellino will speak at an Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia congress in Sydney. Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan will address the Financial Services Institute of Australia in Brisbane. In company news, Westpac Banking Corporation releases ...