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Equity markets back in style

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... belief that the world, and especially the United States, is near the bottom of the problems facing the credit market," said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P's. S&P's attributed part of this strong return in confidence to higher returns ...

Attack tax with tact

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... government it lead to the Fringe Benefits Tax and a stepping up of the Capital Gains Tax. A later pruning exercise by the Howard-Costello government then brought us the Goods and Services Tax even though we are still waiting for many of the State taxes ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... military's retirement fund because the proposed changes could disadvantage military service people. In July last year, the Howard Government created a military superannuation review team to analyse ways to enhance the existing super scheme to improve ...

China response has big trade implications

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... that tainted his predecessor. Influential political columnist Laurie Oakes wrote on the weekend that that just as John Howard was accused of being too close to the US, the Prime Minister might end up being accused of being too close to China. The problem ...

Cromwell recruits ex-rugby manager

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... Queensland based property and funds manager Cromwell Group has appointed ex-Australian Rugby Union general manager Pat Howard as chief operations officer. Howard joins Cromwell from his position as general manager of the high performance unit for ARU ...

Raise the pension, says seniors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... Australians, National Seniors, said older Australians were aware that the $500 payment was an election year one-off bonus by the Howard Government, but the body has called for an increase in the Age Pension to buffer mounting living costs. "With inflation ...

MLC battles death taxes

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... higher rate than death benefits paid under a policy held within superannuation," said MLC head of group insurance, Andrew Howard. "This change to the taxation system means that it is now highly beneficial for employers to take out life and TPD insurance ...

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... objects to the fact that a large part of that bonus from increased profits from the corporate sector was redistributed by the Howard government to the battlers," he told ABC radio yesterday. But even leading economists have dismissed the call, arguing ...

Lonsec advice pays off: Mercer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... management research from different research companies. The recently appointed Phil Graham came from Access Economics, Andrew Howard was once at Frontier and I was previously involved with Mercer research. That research grunt looks very favourable." Mercer's ...

Sub-prime not such a CAD after all

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... may help us fight inflation then we better lock down what's left in the closet that former Prime Ministers Keating and Howard didn't flog off. While the MLC report is upbeat about how our economy and stock markets could still out-perform the developed ...