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Fed's unfunded liabilities balloon to $80bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
Federal unfunded superannuation liabilities have jumped 75 per cent in less than a decade, putting pressure on the government's Future Fund strategy to contain the fiscal blow out. The figures, contained in the latest Mercer analysis from the Department ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Just as leading Unions have stepped up their battle against lifting the retirement age, the government has been forced to dismiss their claims for special rules for manual workers labelling them unfair. The Australian newspaper today reported that the ...

Industry Super splits top job

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
Anthony Wamsteker, the long-time head of ME Bank is leaving the bank at year-end after his group chief executive role was replaced with two CEO spots to head ME Bank and Industry Funds Services/Industry Funds Management. Wamsteker has been the chief ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after Wall Street gained as investors looked ahead toward economic recovery. Higher gold, silver and oil prices are expected to buoy the local market. At 0704 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Adviser portfolios add commodities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... infrastructure spending globally and the significance of the emerging world as some of the high impact trends in the next decade. BT's move is similar to QIC's decision to label "commodities" as a separate class in its portfolio last August, when it ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... Enough said. And our dear Treasurer? Mr. Swan took reports that China's economic growth slowed to its weakest rate in a decade and ran with it, declaring that it 'provides stark evidence of the impact of the global recession on the mining boom, which ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... net interest income by 15 per cent over the past year' and that, '...their interest rate margins have stabilised after a decade of falling.' The irony is that a few weeks ago, new NAB boss Cameron Clyne gave a speech where he said, "There are issues ...

Future still belongs to super

... reach $2.5 trillion by 2018 while Deloitte estimate it will reach $3 trillion in the same year and grow to $7 trillion a decade later. The major driver for the projections are investment returns, which Rainmaker said usually accounts for about three-quarters ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
2009 will be the Year of Africa if Pope Benedict the XVI has his way. Chances are, given the way the global community is now suffering from its greed-infected wounds, he may not have long to wait. Despite all the technological advances, medical discoveries ...

Perpetual buys Financial Pursuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... Financial Pursuit has come a long way since it started off as a planning firm with less than $10 million of FUA more than a decade ago, to the current $250 million. Marishel is a dentist turned financial planner and his first clients were from the dental ...