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NZ Super appoints Elementum Advisors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... Fund, which commenced investing at the end of September 2003, is designed to reduce the tax burden on future New Zealand taxpayers of the cost of New Zealand superannuation. An ageing population means the cost of providing New Zealand superannuation ...

Wall Street v Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... from its previous forecast of 3.1 per cent. So what has changed? What's changed is the tenor of US politics. American taxpayers had every right to be angry at their banks and financial institutions for creating the mess they find themselves in and angrier ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... Massachusetts - considered a very safe Democrat stronghold - might have become too loud for US President Obama not to hear. US taxpayers are angry. Furious that their taxes went into propping up banks and financial institutions who gave their employees ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... came just days after Bank of America Corp repaid the entire $US45 billion ($A49.4 billion) in bailout money it owed US taxpayers. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 29.55 points, or 0.28 per cent at 10,501.05, while the S&P500 index advanced ...

12 Apostles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009

Damned either way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... declined. I can only think of two possible reasons you would not make then-New York Fed President Geithner try to save the taxpayers some money by seriously negotiating or at least take up U.B.S. on their offer of a haircut. Sadly, those two reasons ...

AIA looks to list

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
... announcement that we have reduced our debt to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York by $25 billion sends a clear message to taxpayers: AIG continues to make good on its commitment to pay the American people back," said Bob Benmosche, chief executive at ...

ComSuper faces executive and admin reforms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... administration requirements across its civilian and military schemes. The outsourcing arrangement is expected to save taxpayers $5 million annually. "Outsourcing arrangements are expected to be implemented by July 2011, delivering savings and enabling ...

Big tax reforms on way for super: Tsr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... per cent, the value of concessions on contributions increase as a person earns more income. Less than 2 per cent of taxpayers earn more than $180,000 each year, but they receive a concession worth 31.5 per cent of their contributions," explained the ...