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End voluntary contribution age limits: Suncorp

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
The Australian superannuation industry must remove age restrictions on voluntary contributions, said Suncorp Life CEO Geoff Summerhays. The super boss says that age barriers to contributions discriminate against older people who want to remain active ...

A week full of question marks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... Even the unemployment rate's tick up to 7.9% from 7.8% is also good because this reflected the increase in the participation rate from 63.6% to 63.8% in October. The 'Wall Street Journal's' MarketBeat offered an explanation in its headline: "Good Jobs ...

Australia ranks third in Global Pensions

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... have primarily resulted from an increase in the level of pension fund assets and a rise in the labour force participation rate amongst those aged 55-64. The results also showed that Denmark received an overall index value of 82.9, which makes it the ...

Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... wouldn't be dropping if not for all those jobseekers who've given up jobseeking. The civilian labour force participation rate has fallen from 65.4% when the Big O first sat on that chair in the Oval Office at the West Wing of the White House in Washington ...

Credit Suisse fined by ASIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... ordinary shares in Celamin Holdings. Because the order was entered into the trading system without a maximum participation rate, the program aimed to complete it by the close of trading that day. The algorithm then sliced the order resulting in more ...

Ben's turn to be super

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... a 125K gain. While the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% from 8.3%, this was a function of the drop in the participation rate from 63.7% to 63.5% in August as jobseekers gave up and all gone home to bed instead. To complete the bad news, the tally for ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... number of them Yankees - all 342,000 of them - have given up looking for work and just gone home to bed. The participation rate dropped to 63.6% in April from 63.8 in the previous month. And now here we are. We are back to discerning what the future ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... uncertainty ahead of Thursday's deadline for Greek bondholders to accept a debt swap deal. Rumours that a slack participation rate by private investors in the Greek bond swap might force Athens to extend the deadline beyond Thursday. "Commodities have ...

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... country" last month which took the unemployment rate down to 5.1% (and no you cannot attribute this to the participation rate for it has increased to 65.3% from 65.2%). Expectations? Only 10,000 positions would be added in Jan and the jobless rate would ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... market since 1992. The unemployment rate steadied at 5.2% but this resulted largely from the 0.3% decline in the participation rate to 65.2%. Announcements and warnings of further job shedding - mainly by the banking sector - continued softness in retail ...

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QIC splashes $32m on PEP acquisition

KARREN VERGARA
Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) spent $32 million to back Pacific Equity Partners' (PEP) acquisition of ATOM Group, an industrial and safety goods distributor.

Lazard enters local ETF industry with infra offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON
Lazard Asset Management is now offering ETFs in Australia, kicking off with a global listed infrastructure active ETF.

Performance test covers managed accounts, SMAs: APRA

KARREN VERGARA
The prudential regulator is reminding trustees that managed accounts and separately managed accounts (SMAs) are high on its radar when administering the performance test.

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