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Mercer rates Aussie super B+

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... guarantee it being the most sustainable. Rankings for the 2015 Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index (MMGPI) were released last night and Australia has slipped from second to third overall as a result of the nation slowly reforming its superannuation ...

China should have hardlanded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... wing and a pray'r..." -Joey Scarbury It's tampered with, it's falsified, it's a fabrication, it's embellished! As sure as night follows day, these howls of protest come when China reports growth numbers that are better-than-expectations. So it was when ...

Australian Ethical awards $300,000 in grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... helps homeless people find shelter. "We believe every child has the right to a safe and comfortable place to sleep, yet each night around 20,000 young Australian children are accompanying their parents into homelessness," charity founder Claire Wearne ...

Super to fund Aussie infrastructure: Shorten

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... investment for key infrastructure projects. Unveiling Labor's infrastructure plans at a Queensland Media Club event last night, Shorten said the predicted $4 trillion in super savings by 2025 should be put to "work on nation-building." The plan is to ...

Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... 1.5% in 2013- 2014 to about 1.3% this year. It eased to 1.2% in the year to July from 1.3% in the previous month. Friday night brings that equally important Non-farm payrolls report. Markets expect employment to grow by 203,000 in August and the unemployment ...

Turnbull expected to dust off shelved policies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... had several periods of consultation throughout the year," he said. The cabinet was reportedly supposed to meet on Monday night to discuss the government's response to the FSI, and the response to the Life Insurance Framework was also imminent. But the ...

Lift Janet lift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... numbers - showed job openings rose by 8.1% to 5.75 million in July from 5.32 million in the previous month. And just last night, we learned that jobless claims dropped by 6,000 to 275K in the week ended 5 September - the 27th consecutive week below 300K ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... more, the sun shines and the sky's blue. This means that the Fed can go ahead and lift, right Virginia? More so after last night's re-calibration revealing that the US economy grew not 2.3% but a solid 3.7% in the second quarter - backed up by "an upturn ...

The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... is the Australian equity market's recovery would always be tentative unless it gets the go signal from Wall Street. Last night, it did. The Dow and the S&P 500 soared - 4.0% and 3.9%, respectively - at the closing bell. It wasn't because China's suddenly ...

Fintech start-ups painted as future heroes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... receive the same status and respect as the country's sporting heroes. At the colourful Stone and Chalk official opening last night, chairman Craig Dunn said if Australia did not become a fintech leader in the Asia-Pacific region then the project would ...