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Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
Australia's stop-start superannuation reforms in the last decade, that have focused more on choice rather than actually boosting savings, have cost hundreds of billions of dollars in missed savings opportunities and we are only now starting to catch ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2006
The Australian Fair Pay Commission yesterday increased the national minimum wage for low paid workers by $27.36 to $700 and by $22.04 for those above $700 in a decision that was supported by both major political parties and the union movement but opposed ...

BT unveils online super sales tools for advisers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2006
... and build their business." BT said that with the corporate super sector set to grow by 19 per cent per year for the next decade, solidifying market prominence was critical to garnering a slice of that growth. "With the launch of the Art of Super toolkit ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
... 0.2 per cent to sum the annual running inflation rate to 2.9 per cent which is the highest US inflation has been for a decade. China continues to grow at about twice the global level with September quarter growth of 10.4 per cent and calendar year growth ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... to Rainmaker, the funds under management market in Australia is projected to reach approximately $3.4 trillion within a decade, even before factoring in the impact of the savings incentives announced in the latest Federal Budget and the establishment ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... per cent of the workforce. Casual male workers have increased by 115 per cent and female ones by 43 per cent in the last decade. The centre says that employers have often used outsourcing to reduce costs, administration and obligations although prosecutions ...

AFA launches its new website

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... expect of the adviser's own websites. We believe that the site's functionality will meet their needs now and into the next decade. The AFA site is built around the concept of quickly adding capacity and more access as required," Klipin said. The revamped ...

Tyndall's new fixed interest strategy sees Gustafson exit

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... changing market for fixed interest in Australia. "The market for fixed interest has undergone significant changes in the past decade, driven primarily by shifting institutional demand and the long bull-run in interest rates," Sheehan said. "For example ...

Agribusiness still appeals to lenders

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
... bank's agribusiness book has grown 20 per cent over that period. "Rural property values have gone up strongly in the past decade and debt levels have tended to follow those values," Jennings said. Rural land values have been affected by the strength ...

Daily economic round-up

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
The Housing Industry Association has confirmed the patchy performance of the Australian property market, saying that over the last three years, when the equity market was booming, housing starts in New South Wales fell by 37 per cent although in Western ...