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Foreign Exempt rules under review

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... Poor's Index Services (S&P) has teamed up with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to seek market feedback on a proposal to make listed Foreign Exempt companies eligible for index inclusion. In a proposal outlined in the consultation paper released ...

Ironbridge to buy Bravura

Financial services software provider Bravura has announced a takeover proposal from private equity firm Ironbridge Capital which values the group at more than $270 million. Under the proposal, a company to be owned by funds advised by Ironbridge and ...

Same sex super overdue: AIST

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has thrown its support behind the Federal Government's proposal to eliminate same-sex discrimination in superannuation law. AIST chief executive Fiona Reynolds claims the government's changes ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... interest rate meeting. The benchmark Hang Seng Index slid 158.8 points to close at 25,755.35 points. WELLINGTON - A takeover proposal for Contact Energy's key shareholder, Australia's Origin Energy, sent a positive buzz through the sharemarket, which ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... per cent, to $136.17. Mr Kopetz said the most significant business news this morning had been a $12.9 billion takeover proposal for Origin Energy Ltd, Australia's second biggest electricity and gas retailer, by UK-based utility BG Group. "That is a substantial ...

FinLit boosts productivity while educating kids

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
Promoting financial literacy is not only for educating children about money, it's also about securing our industry's future, said Joan Fitzpatrick, chief executive of the Australia and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF). "We are ...

2020 Summit push for life long accounts

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... Learning for life accounts (LLA) and the establishment of a government backed residential securities program. While the LLA proposal is primarily focused on setting up a single deposit account for every individual from cradle to grave into which governments ...

Super funds to resurrect ailing RMBS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... securities while they are trading at discount levels. Overseas however, ratings house Standard & Poor's has waved aside a proposal for a commonwealth government guaranteed agency, AussieMac, to buy prime Australian RMBS in a bid to alleviate the dry ...

Retirement age must rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
The call by NSW Premier Morris Iemma for a lift in the retirement age reflects simple economic reality. It also shows how naive in retrospect people were who criticised the former government's proposals to encourage workers to delay their retirement ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... both the CPI and average weekly earnings, this pension should move to the same index arrangement," said Crews. "This proposal reduces the defined contribution up front from 18 per cent to 16 per cent and it has reduced the reversionary benefit for surviving ...