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The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
Like its rich world counterparts, the Eurozone economy is contracting and the outlook for this year is non-the-brighter. But while the central banks of the US, Japan and the UK raced to the zero interest rate line, the European Central Bank (ECB) appears ...

Better insurance for WA LGSP

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
The $1.3 billion WA Local Government Super Plan has upgraded its insurance offering by providing automatic default insurance for all uninsured members. According to a statement on the fund's website, WA LGSP is seeking to address its members' underinsurance ...

No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
What's this? No headlines on yesterday's all-important Australian Labour Force report? Australian newspapers have relegated yesterday's Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) employment report to their inside pages. Since November last year, the media ...

Meat fund invests in high growth

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
The $529 million Meat Industry Employees Superannuation Fund is defying the super industry's flight to cash when it recently introduced a new "high growth" investment option to members. Up until the start of this year, MIESF did not offer investment ...

Plusses and minuses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... disposition of Australian businesses. The NAB business survey showed that business confidence fell to minus 32 points in January - the lowest reading in the survey's 20-year history and even lower than the confidence reading recorded in the 1990/91 recession. ...

Former BHP chief makes history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
Temasek Holdings has appointed Charles "Chip" Goodyear as the new chief executive of the company, making him the first foreigner to run the Singaporean sovereign fund giant. Goodyear, who retired from BHP Billiton in January last year, joined the Temasek ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open flat as Wall Street awaits details of the US government's overhaul of a $US700 billion ($A1.04 trillion) financial rescue program. At 0700 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... employment series, which measures internet and newspaper job ads, showed a seasonally adjusted decline of 6.3 per cent in January - the ninth month in a row that the number of job advertisements has fallen. "The Olivier job index is weaker as well," ...

FPA stops "highly offensive" ads

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has obtained a Federal Court injunction stopping Bannister Mansfield Financial Services and the firm's director from publishing ads featuring the FPA. The FPA's solicitors asked Bannister Mansfield Financial ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... soared by 7.1 per cent. So why the sudden change of heart? Well, according to Bloomberg, the ugly US payrolls number in January 'would force Congress to reach a compromise on President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package'. The employment report ...