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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... $19.6 billion to approximately $36 billion by 2009-2010 as a result of planned infrastructure spending. In managing the NSW Budget there are two major problems - a quarter of a per cent increase in interest rates equates to an $84 million additional ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... Council of Social Services Director Andrew Johnson has said that about 2 million Australians had difficulties meeting their budget every week.

Perennial appoints ex-VFMC numbers man

Perennial Investment Partners has snapped up the former financial controller of the Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC), Niall Keane, for a similar role within the firm. As the new financial controller, part of Keane's brief is to handle the ...

Keating and Sen Chapman to launch AFA conference

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
... will also be a major focus on building the right charging structure for a advisory practice, SMSFs post the 2006 Federal Budget, how to build a successfull practice, and how to manage and understand underwriting. The conference will also examine investor ...

Super changes drive up bottom line: Rice Walker

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2006
Rice Walker Actuaries believes that recent proposed changes to the superannuation industry being pushed through by the Howard Government will drive accumulated assets up 16 per cent above previous estimates by the year 2020. Speaking at a seminar at ...

Simpler super will promote savings: Dutton

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
... at yesterday's Association of Superannuation Funds (ASFA) Canberra lunch, with a record number of attendees, said, "The [Budget reform] headlines were to revolutionise the way super is administered in Australia, because the old system was hampering the ...

Sporting sponsorships do not breach sole purpose: Freehills

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2006
... sole purpose test is about what the fund's assets are used for& but if the sponsorship is paid by the fund's marketing budget it then becomes simply a cost-benefit issue." Echoing this approach, Umberto Mecchi, executive manager strategy & marketing ...

Budget super consultations attract 3,500 submissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2006
... more than 1,500 written submissions and more than 3,500 calls from across the community." Responding to claims that the Budget reforms contain a sting that fund members not supplying tax file numbers could soon see their super assets taxed at full marginal ...

Tyndall announces new COO

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2006
Tyndall Investment Management has appointed a former CommInsure manager as the group's new chief operating officer. Brad Clarke's role will include overseeing compliance, risk management, revenue budgeting, managing key service relationships as well ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2006
... pressure on the government comes from the fact that the government's monthly financial statement for May revealed that the budget surplus for the year to May was running at $17.8 billion which is about $3 billion more than the latest forecast for the ...