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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... markets were mixed, with traders spooked by news German business confidence has hit a 31-month low, wrangling over Greece's budget and uncertainty about Spain. Tokyo was 0.25 per cent higher, adding 22.25 points to 9,091.54 but Sydney slipped 0.29 per ...

Abbott government to index military pensions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... a measure of justice to ex-service personnel by properly indexing defence pensions and would deliver this in our first budget," he said. The announcement is expected to be welcomed by retired service personnel groups which have long campaigned for the ...

Star alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... import-competing industries. Speaking of business confidence, the final results of the Federal Government's FY 2011/12 budget has business owners growing worried once again - both because of the budget's implication on their revenues, the taxes they ...

Super fees are falling but only just

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... system is costing the Australian nation $47bn per year, which is about 4% of GDP or more than twice the national defence budget. "Workplace fund total expense ratios (TER) were found to average 1.38%, personal fund TERs 2.01%, retirement fund TERs 1.84% ...

Greens propose scaled super contribs tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... marginal tax rates. The proposal follows emerging debate about the cost of superannuation tax subsidies to the Commonwealth budget and whether it is excessive given other government funding priorities. In a statement, Greens leader, Senator Christine ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... unfazed by the 21% dive in Burberry scripts nor Moody's threat to lower America's rating "probably to Aa1" from Aaa if budget negotiations fail to "lead to specific policies that produce a stabilization and then downward trend in the ratio of federal ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
"We have just taken a very important decision, it is a fully effective backstop for removing the tail risk of Europe." With these words, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi put a stop to months of speculation, hearsays and guesswork. Mario ...

Plug the $1 trillion savings shortfall: FSC

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... an upcoming round table on superannuation, announced in January, to prevent this savings deficit impacting the federal budget. He said this outcome will force retirees to depend on the Age Pension at a stage in their retirement when they may be faced ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... oranges) so far this year - up 10.1%. Why not? Australia is AAA-rated while the US only has two A's. Australia has a lower budget deficit. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts a shortfall of 0.7% of GDP at the end of this year -- more than ...

Untargeted tax subsidies inept

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... study, 'Can the taxpayer afford 'self-funded' retirement", reveals that within five years - according to the Commonwealth Budget Papers - the costs of the nation's superannuation taxation subsidies will climb to $45 billion and become the government's ...