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Untargeted tax subsidies inept

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... billion spent on retirement policy being almost three times the national spend on education, 3.6 times what it spends on defence and 4.5 times what it spends on disability income support and the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Richard Denniss ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... ended the week on a high note, with Frankfurt's blue-chip DAX 30 index breaking above the 7,000-point level on a eurozone defence by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The DAX gained 0.64 per cent to close at 7,040.88 points after already breaking briefly ...

Untargeted tax subsidies inefficient

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... $90bn spent on retirement policy being almost three times what the nation spends on education, 3.6 times what is spent on defence and 4.5 times what is spent on disability income support and the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Richard Denniss ...

MySuper Bill could expose individual trustees to legal action

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... would be particularly inappropriate, said AIST. This could mean that under the proposed legislation, there would be no defence for innocent directors. The FSC's said that this "Imposes obligations on each individual director and equates them to the office ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... contracts traded. The normally cautious head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, gave his most resounding defence of the under-siege currency to date, sending markets around the world solidly into positive territory and lifting the euro. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... sent shares skyward. LONDON - European stock markets posted more solid gains as Germany and France backed up a staunch defence of the euro by ECB chief Mario Draghi and the US reported better than expected growth in the second quarter. London's benchmark ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... contracts traded. The normally cautious head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, gave his most resounding defence of the under-siege currency to date, sending markets around the world solidly into positive territory and lifting the euro. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... cent) to 2,893.25. The normally cautious head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, gave his most resounding defence of the under-siege currency to date, sending markets around the world solidly into positive territory and lifting the euro. ...

APRA: Third line of defence in Trio-style fraud

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... employees are engaged in fraudulent activity," he said. "In its supervision of superannuation APRA acts as a third line of defence after trustees and auditors." Jones said that the impact of the Trio fraud on individuals has been made greater by the ...

Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... to the government, is improved targeting of selected welfare and tax concession programs, deferral of some big ticket defence procurement and canceling the 1% corporate tax rate reduction which the government wasn't able to get through the Parliament ...