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From Slovakia with love

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... year-on-year, from 16 per cent growth a month earlier. A slowdown in net exports is expected to see real wage growth cool off, but budget spending is only expected to rise moderately as the government strives to meet the Maastricht fiscal criterion for ...

Finance jobs fall 8 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
Slowing market conditions are finally flowing through to the finance sector with advertised job vacancies falling 8 per cent in over a one month period. Grant Montgomery, managing director of E.L Consult who conducted the Executive Demand Index, said ...

Women-friendly finance tips launched

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
A federal government survey found women are more interested in financial literacy than men, prompting the government to develop an education series tailored to their specific needs. The Financial Literacy - Women understanding money survey found 70 ...

AXA online gets thumbs up

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... invested around $3 million to $5 million each year into its life insurance division but over the next three years, that budget will rise to more than $10 million.

Job vacancies bull run falters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... be about to break will send shudders through the government and Treasury officials now busy preparing the May 13 Federal Budget. The reaction of the capital markets would be even more devastating.

AXA to invest $30m in life insurance

... invested around $3 million to $5 million each year into its life insurance division but over the next three years, that budget will rise to more than $10 million. AXA general manager in Financial Protection Michael Rogers that the investment will go ...

Super structure needs fixing

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
Industry Super Network executive director David Whiteley said any decision the Government takes in the upcoming May budget to increase superannuation contributions needs to be grounded in structural reforms to increase the "efficiency and fairness" ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... said now was not a good time to buy shares because of the volatility in the market. "I'll be waiting until May and the budget, which will probably be a tough one. Markets like tough budgets," he said. Insurance companies also did well, with AMP jumping ...

Raise the pension, says seniors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... one-off $500 payment for Utilities and Seniors Concession Allowance recipients announced in the Howard Government's 2007 budget.

We knew it all along: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... while at the same time, raised both the inflationary consequences and the opportunity cost of government activity; boosted budget revenues; and eroded fiscal discipline. "We had discussed the consequences of the coming to an end of a long global deflationary ...