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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... from the euro zone debt crisis. The news came as markets were already trading up after France and Germany issued a joint defence of Greece, insisting its place was in the euro zone despite market sentiment it might default. The EU said on Thursday its ...

Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation appoints CEO

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... Superannuation Corporation was established on 1 July 2011 following the merger of the ARIA and Military Super boards and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority. CSC has responsibility for managing and investing $24 billion of superannuation ...

Future Fund not for sale: Wong

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... non-financial assets other than the expected sale of digital spectrum. Tune replied there were estimates for the disposal of Defence properties and land and the expected sale of assets from the Future Fund. "That is an extraordinary revelation," Cormann ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... growth was slowing, but that we are going backwards. In a global economy where productivity growth is the first and last defence against falling national living standards, this should be enough to trigger a political storm akin to a national (economic) ...

In defence of superannuation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
Superannuation funds earning nearly 7% per annum over the past 20 years has forced minister Bill Shorten to defend the system itself while arguing why lifting SG from 9 to 12% is still a good idea. Speaking on ABC TV's Insider's program yesterday, Minister ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... Australia (RBA), Guy Debelle, delivers an address in Adelaide to the Workshop on Global Macro and Finance Issues, entitled "In Defence of Current Account Deficits". The Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) conducts a tender process to issue ...

Consolidated super corporation appoints board

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... consolidation of the Australian Reward Investment Alliance (ARIA), the Military Superannuation and Benefits (MSB) Board and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority. Minister for Finance and Deregulation Penny Wong, when making the annoucement ...

Commonwealth trustee reforms passes Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... benefits will include access to better investment scale and potential for lower fees, particularly for serving and former Defence Force personnel. Warren Snowdon, minister for veterans' affairs and defence science and personnel, said the improved efficiencies ...

Labor moves to justify super existence

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... system and the need to grow it further, as it continues to be used as a prominent figure on the political battleground. In defence of on-going criticism from the opposition party on the government's proposal to take the superannuation guarantee from ...

NAB sued over financial advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... said it was unable to comment as the matter is before the court The court has made orders for discovery and the filing of defence, with a trial date expected in 2012. Mark Walter, Slater & Gordon practice group leader for commercial litigation, said ...