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Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... institutions. The concept is good. Take away all the bad assets from banks and financial institutions and they will be healthy enough to resume lending. Credit will again start flowing and grease the wheels of recovery. But this maybe better said than ...

Bigger fish to fry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... inflation - headline CPI, trimmed mean, weighted median - were still trending higher. Thus far, Australia has been fortunate enough to avoid being drag into the vortex that has sunk much bigger economies down the drain. The US, Japan, the Eurozone and ...

Read between the headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... Between 2006 and 2008, BHP has hired a total of around 8,552 employees. Recall that during this time period, there were not enough people in Australia to work its mines. It had to import workers from abroad. The unemployment rate in 2006 averaged 4.8 ...

The day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... forward. Yes we can! Obama is no Moses. The task at hand is great. But the fresh promise this new president engenders could be enough to turn around expectations and confidence. This is one prophecy we hope will be self-fulfilling.

Right to choice must balance costs of choosing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... of choice, being apathetic about their choices while still protecting the government's Duty of Care to ensure they save enough for retirement is through the use of soft-compulsion measures to boost contributions.

BT upgrades insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... said financial advisers must ensure their clients are appropriately covered. "Typically where a client has accumulated enough wealth they may mistakenly believe there's no need for life insurance and that they are self insured. Advisers need to remain ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... 17,304 contracts. Intersuisse director of equities Andrew Sekely said the modest gains on Wall St overnight had not been enough to lead the Australian market into positive territory. "New York was down 100 points and then rallied fairly late, so it's ...

Trustees should adopt system-wide policies: Sherry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... preoccupied with the debate on contributions and adequacy and that's legitimate. But in my view, we have not been focused enough on efficiencies in the system." He said the inefficiencies in the way super operates, the costs and the complexities all ...

All together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... monetary and regulatory policy decisions made over the course of the year. Besides, the global recession has picked up enough momentum that it could not easily be reversed even if the G20 implemented some sort of action the very next day. All they could ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... industrials briefly below 8,000. Investors drove the Dow up more than 500 points, betting that the market has priced in enough bad news. The initial selloff began early in the day after the Labor Department reported that the number of newly laid-off ...