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Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... hospital, pharmaceutical, green energy and infrastructure stocks while a Romney victory will see coal, railroad, bank, defence and auto stocks climb. However, the equity expert maintains that investors looking for more predictable gains should look beyond ...

Abbott government to index military pensions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... "An incoming coalition government would finally offer a measure of justice to ex-service personnel by properly indexing defence pensions and would deliver this in our first budget," he said. The announcement is expected to be welcomed by retired service ...

Super fees are falling but only just

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... superannuation system is costing the Australian nation $47bn per year, which is about 4% of GDP or more than twice the national defence budget. "Workplace fund total expense ratios (TER) were found to average 1.38%, personal fund TERs 2.01%, retirement ...

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. ...