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Fin services execs rock on for charity

Some financial service professionals have a secret identity - analysts, fund managers, financial planners and business development managers by day, rockstars by night. The Financial Industry Community Aid Programme (FICAP), developed in 2006 by a group ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... Greece and the US labour market dominated the financial headlines last week. Greece and its efforts to contain its widening budget deficit provides a forward view of how things could escalate from bad to worse and when debts go wild. The Greek government ...

Hartsuyker takes aim at govt reviews

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
Luke Hartsuyker, shadow minister for financial services, superannuation, corporate law and consumer affairs, said the Government has failed to encourage Australians to invest in superannuation by creating an uncertain regulatory environment. Speaking ...

IGR signals tax and health reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... economic growth. "These challenges will place substantial pressure on economic growth, living standards and the federal budget over the next 40 years," said Treasurer Wayne Swann in a statement. The biggest jumps in required government expenditure will ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... January' appears to have suddenly went puff. China? Greece and the rest of the PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain? Budget deficits? Joblessness? All because of 1 February 2010's wonderful set of purchasing managers index (PMI), showing that the ...

Greek tragedy overwhelms Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... rose to a 10-year high of 7.16 per cent on the back of concerns that the country would find it difficult to contain its budget deficit of around 13 per cent of its national output. This provides a preview of what the bond market vigilantes could do to ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... consumers. Just imagine if Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd buckled under Opposition pressure back then? In his 2008 budget reply, ex-Opposition leader Brendan Nelson declared it a "tax and spend" budget while the next ex-Opposition leader Malcolm ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... on concern about exposure to ailing Japan Airlines Corp, while shares of Fast Retailing, which runs the Uniqlo chain of budget clothing stores, fell five per cent after Goldman Sachs said the firm's recent earnings forecast upgrade had been largely priced ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
... administration raised taxes, cut back spending and tightened monetary policy in 1937 in efforts to restore the federal budget back in balance. Just as now, improvements in economic indicators (mis)led it to believe that happy days are here again. Wrong! ...

Damned either way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009