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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 ...

Great Southern case rages on

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Investors in a class action against failed agribusiness firm Great Southern live to fight another day after access to new documents has been approved. In a hearing held April 4, former Great Southern directors, Peter Patrikeos and Jeffrey Mews were ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... stronghold. The US said it was preparing for action. "The fact is that the no-fly zone does involve taking out of anti-aircraft defence in Libya," Mr Solar said. "So there is some sort of military aspect to it which the market is always somewhat nervous ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
The Australian market is receiving strong, negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with foreign markets spooked by the crisis in Libya, and poor data from China, the US and Spain. On the ASX 24 at 0832 AEDT, the March share price index futures ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
Months of anxiety over rising inflation, speculation over near-term hikes in interest rates (in the developed economies) and/or actual hikes in interest rates (in emerging markets), lingering doubts over the US recovery, policy mistake and then a hard ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... recession of 1990/91. But one thing's certain the collapse of Communism brought forth a peace dividend. Fiscal spending on defence, arms and ammunitions came down in both the east and west and allocated to more productive, private endeavours. \ America's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... Libya's sovereign wealth fund and veteran ruler Moamer Kadhafi's family own stakes in Italy's biggest bank UniCredit, defence and industry giant Finmeccanica, as well as in the first-division Juventus football club. Shares in UniCredit plunged 5.75 per ...