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Household wealth breaks through $5 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... concerns should be that in 1960 dwellings also accounted for 52 of household wealth, highlighting that while the huge public policy initiatives in superannuation have been a boon for the investment industry, they have actually done little to create new ...

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... while the BCA is keen for constraints to be imposed on government spending and politically sensitive and high demand public policy areas like defence, health and social security and welfare, it is not so keen for the same constraints to be applied to ...

Disclose what you invest in: ACSI

... affects voting rights, and in the case of public sector funds, pressure to vote at general meetings in the interest of public policy objectives rather than for beneficiaries. O'Sullivan said, "We're [ACSI] very supportive of the new statement although ...

Ageing population challenges require updated IGR

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
... superannuation is such a central part of Government policy, even extending to how changing demographic characteristics mean public policy itself has to evolve. "We have got to encourage people to remain in the workforce longer and we are showing progress ...

Chairperson of Super Complaints Tribunal reappointed

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
... Tribunal during this important time for Australia's superannuation system." McDonald's background is in law and public policy, having previously worked as a solicitor, barrister, Commissioner of Corporate Affairs, Presidential Member of the Federal Administrative ...

Aon Re appoints Florida insurance veteran

... environments by diversifying their skills. For example, he expanded his role from traditional actuarial work into public policy development in his former job. "I became a spokesperson for both the actuarial profession and the insurance industry in Florida. ...

Time for another Wallis Inquiry

... the scale of the 1996-97 Wallis Inquiry. Professor Ian Harper, executive director of the Centre for Business and Public Policy at Melbourne Business School, noted the major consolidations that have happened overseas in recent years. By contrast, current ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2006
... interest rates will remain unchanged at 5.50 per cent. On the equities front Telstra's group managing director of public policy Phil Burgess speaks in Melbourne. NEW YORK - US stocks rallied, helped by a drop in crude oil prices and comments from Federal ...

Babcock & Brown appoints former senator

... former senator and ALP National President Stephen Loosley to provide strategic advice on the firm's corporate and public policy. Prior to his new role, Loosley was a senior partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal where he headed the Strategic, Corporate ...

Twin strategy needed to boost super savings: ABA

... Reasonable Benefits Limits, streamlining taxation, and reviewing income stream rules that actually act against the public policy objectives. But the ABA has also suggested a range of positive and proactive approaches that might mean lowering the 15 per ...