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AFA urges Independents to help change FOFA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... Report addressed these misunderstandings, the Government's FOFA position appears to have hardened." The AFA was also in Canberra last week on the issue. "We met with the key advisers of Independents, we had forthright and honest dialogue with the Greens ...

Industry welcomes Shorten's promotion

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
... Sports Minister Mark Arbib assume the junior minister portfolio of Assistant Treasurer. Speaking at a press conference in Canberra yesterday, Shorten spoke of an inherent link between financial services and his newly acquired industrial relations brief. ...

Market Wrap- Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... runs out at midnight. Internet service provider iinet lifted nine cents to $2.45 as it confirmed its intention to buy Canberra-based TransACT for $60 million. Online jobs website business and education services provider Seek was up four cents at $6.02 ...

Adviser hiring blitz at Macquarie Private Wealth

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... while Ben Kirkegaard advises high net worth families and Lawrence Williamson focuses on self-managed super funds. The Canberra team has expanded by five new advisers with Paschal Leahy and Luke Furner for defined benefit superannuation recipients, Hena ...

MilitarySuper chief executive to stand down

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... move on from MilitarySuper following a year of commuting between his home in Melbourne and the fund's head office in Canberra, but said he had no new role lined up at this stage. On July 1 the MilitarySuper Board merged with the Defence Force Retirement ...

Be glad for A$ weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
Oh no! This couldn't happen. Not now, not when the "Finance Minister of the Year" sits in Canberra. The A-dollar has fallen below parity with the US dollar. Australian deputy prime minister and federal treasurer Wayne Swan had been awarded the top gong ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... the Queensland Water Commission (QWC) to manage the state's groundwater supplies with a levy to be introduced in 2012. CANBERRA - Resource giant BP is asking for trouble exploring the pristine Great Australian Bight in search of oil, environmentalists ...

Trouble building in the housing market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... building up. I think that is a social problem as much as an economic one," he said. The supply constraint, reported the Canberra Times, is that the Housing Industry Association said this 179,000 annual target is 29,000 more homes than it has been able ...

CBD vacancies hit 2-year low

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... between July 2009 and June this year AREITs out-performed direct property, earning 12.9% per annum compared to 8.6%. Canberra has the highest office vacancy rate at 13.3%, followed by Sydney's 9.3%, and Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide all with between 7.3 ...

Super now the fourth pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... will develop to become the fifth, said minister Bill Shorten at a major superannuation function at Parliament House in Canberra last night. Shorten was speaking at a dinner to mark 20 year since compulsory employer superannuation was introduced, a policy ...