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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
Australian market looks set to open flat following the federal budget's release, despite a positive lead from Wall street where both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 reached fresh record highs. At 0645 AEST on Wednesday, the March share price index futures ...

Timely market surge for a tough budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... markets. It'll come in handy just in time when us, Australians all, are bracing for tonight's great reveal of the Federal Budget -- a budget which the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) termed as a "blood, sweat and tears" budget. We'll have to wait ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher ahead of the federal budget and after both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 reached fresh record highs. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 31 points at 5,468. Analysts ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... share market is lower due to falls on overseas markets and uncertainty about what will be contained in next week's Federal budget. "The federal budget is having a big dampening impact on buying in the market, and until that is done and dusted there's ...

Industry asks for long-term, comprehensive approach to Age Pension

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... sector to meet "the ballooning costs of disability welfare in Australia to reduce the increasing pressure on the Federal Budget," Brogden said. "Life insurance can reduce the long-term public sector costs of the National Disability Insurance Scheme and ...

Regulators must enforce rules, not write them: Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... the FSC believe the Murray inquiry should deal with, including global competitiveness, financial system users and federal budget sustainability. However, he gave most time to the role of superannuation in Australia's economy. He countered arguments that ...

Actuaries call for overhaul of retirement phase rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... such a review, as well as ensuring that appropriated safeguards are in place to protect consumers as well as the Federal budget," the submission said. It said the wave of baby boomers reaching retirement was making the issue all the more urgent. The ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... second half of this year. Tony and Joey might not have to blame the boogie after all. Well, that is if the May Federal Budget doesn't contain nasty surprises. And oh, also if the Australian dollar drops to around US$0.80-US$0.85 as the IMF prescribes ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... US Democratic senator Patty Murray and House of Representatives Republican Paul Ryan late on Tuesday announced a federal budget deal for the next two years that would avert another government shutdown when US spending authority expires on January 15. ...

Industry bodies call for Government LISC U-turn

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
... tax on superannuation contributions. "Repealing [the LISC] will negatively impact on Australian society and the Federal budget in the long term," the body's submission said. The FSC said: "It was a long-standing flaw in the superannuation system that ...