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Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... opportunity is that transforming superannuation from being extra labour cost into a major macro-economic lever could put the politics of superannuation contributions into the news everyday and dramatically lift the tempo behind industry calls for overall ...

Wiki me happy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... more importantly, read and respond to social media, as opposed to print based media. But while social networking paid in politics, super funds and fund managers have regulatory obligations that preclude them from using conventional sites. For example ...

AustEthical director elected MLA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
Showing that investment principles and politics can mix, AustEthical Investment director and Greens candidate Caroline Le Couteur, has won a seat in the ACT Legislative Assembly. The ACT election was held last on 18th November but with neither the Labor ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... The Institute of Public Affairs hosts the 2008 Harold Clough Lecture, with Professor Aynsley Kellow speaking on "The Politics and Science of Climate Change - The Wrong Stuff". Yesterday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index leapt 194.1 points, or 4.22 per ...

S&P place Advance Asian fund 'on hold'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... to invest in the region, as Asian markets and companies are heavily influenced by regional factors such as cultures, politics and cross border relations," said Gorman. "Lion's value style investment philosophy is similar to that of Maple-Brown Abbott ...

Interest rates - when economics meets politics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
When politics meets the economics of fighting inflation, people have a habit of making big statements that can sound alarmist. Causing the jitters is that the Reserve Bank Board is meeting today and by 2.30 pm we'll know if they've decided to raise ...

Who cares about the US, it's Asia that matters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... magnifies the importance of the fracas over Australia's poor treatment of the Indian cricketers. Whoever said sport, politics and business don't mix obviously has no idea about what drives Australia's economy.

Pass the paracetamol

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... Henderson, NAB's chief economist said this morning that the rate hike today, "should be a wake up call for both sides of politics. Government spending has been a significant contributor to the strong growth in domestic demand over the past year, which ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
... takeover offer from Wesfarmers and, according to reports, a bid for some of Coles's assets from rival Woolworths. In politics, the NSW Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Water Phil Koperberg will speak at a Committee for Economic Development ...

China's growth unsustainable: Australian Economic Review

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... Economic Review. The report's author, Professor Yu Yongding, director-general at the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says the coexistence of the twin surpluses - a result of market distortions - has ...