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Budget me a recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... However, there is a sense of deja vu brewing in national governments' response to quickly correct their sharply widened budget deficits. In 1932, the US Congress reduced spending and raised income taxes of high wage earners to bring the budget back in ...

UK budget cuts HNW pension relief

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
In a forerunner to what might happen in next month's Federal Budget, the UK government has slashed retirement savings tax rebates for people earning more than A$300,000. The reforms are part of a widely criticised budget that takes the UK deficit to ...

Passive managers win insto favour

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... investment opportunity for cautious investors - particularly if they are willing to take a bit more risk in their risk budget. "It's liquid, there's been quite a [few] good issuance in the pipeline.. and the spreads are attractive even given a relatively ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... Australia! Standard & Poor's and Moody's threatened Australia with a downgrade in its sovereign risk rating if the National Budget remains in deficit over the medium term. My, oh my, I am so scared. And so we all should be. Because the immediate consequence ...

Budget deficit squeezes pension promises

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
The looming federal budget deficit tipped to exceed $50 billion accompanied by a blow-out in the government's borrowing requirement is threatening the Prime Minister's promise to boost age pensions in next month's budget. Following last year's budget ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Surprise! The exclamation would almost always put a smile on anyone's face especially when the expected worst turns into a welcome better. Financial markets have been bombarded day after day after day with news that went from bad to worse to worst for ...

Keep co-contributions: HESTA

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... spotlight on women's super with its call for the Government to retain the super co-contribution scheme in the upcoming Federal Budget. HESTA's concern has been sparked by fears that next month's Federal Budget will include revenue initiatives to offset ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... this year instead of rising by 0.5 per cent. The danger I speak of is the action taken by the UK Treasury in its annual budget. In unveiling the Kingdom's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling announced that the Treasury would raise taxes ...

Northern Trust appoints investment risk head

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
Northern Trust ramps up its resources in Asia-Pacific when it appointed former Kapstream Capital executive Madhu Gayer as head of investment risk & analytical services (IRAS). Based in Hong Kong, Gayer will be responsible for IRAS client relations ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... Australia's economy in recent years' and therefore, 'make it certain that our own forecasts for growth and revenue in the budget will be substantially worse' than previously predicted. But we all knew this all along -- that the March quarter would be ...