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SuperChoice buys SuperConnect

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... of nearly 0.1 per cent whereas unvalidated data rejection rates experienced by some funds are as high as 10 per cent (100 times greater). The company predicts it will process over 20 million superannuation contribution transactions this year.

Go for gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... room for capital appreciation. Equities? Just look at your latest superannuation statement. Gold comes into fore during times of rising inflation and/or market turmoil. Runaway inflation in the late 1970s sent gold prices soaring by 547 per cent from ...

Pay to perform

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... leap from existing rules where shareholder approval is not required in cases where the termination payment is up to seven times the average base salary. The changes will not be limited to the company's directors. Termination payments for all executives ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... trillion added to the pot when it is only leaking into the pockets of the greediest of the greedy? Luck of the Irish. In olden times this phrase was used as a put down to Irish immigrants to the US, where it is expressed to mean that Irish people who ...

Seize the pay

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... because the Corporations Act states that shareholder approval is not required for termination payments up to as much as seven times the equivalent of 12 months of total remuneration. Similarly, the ASX states that shareholder approval is not required ...

Currency cushions GFC hangover

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... research and strategise based on the cause and effects of the two sectors' movements. "Some [strategies] will work well in times like these, others won't. So if you depend on just one factor, like the carry trade, then you can get nasty drawdowns," said ...

Hunter Hall says sorry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... months and all the relative losses in 11 months," he said. "Now the scale of what we're doing now is on about two and a half times as big as the problems we faced in 2002...the solution will take probably two or three years, but I think by the end of ...

NAB gambles on its IFS model

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... the business banking division. The bank has reported previously that lending to business customers has been growing at 1.3 times system over the past few months. NAB is in the process of hiring between 150 and 200 new business bankers and is looking ...

Contributions surge to 25pc of wages

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... considerably from the 2006-07 all time high. Contributions are now equivalent to 25 per cent of total wages, nearly three times the 9 per cent SG compulsory level. This surge will undermine arguments that SG needs to be increased to lift national savings ...

Savings paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... getting a lot of coverage these days). According to Wikipedia, 'the paradox states that if everyone saves more money during times of recession, then aggregate demand will fall and will in turn lower total savings in the population because of the decrease ...