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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... Australian Bureau of Statistics releases data on international trade in goods and services for February. In company news, defence technology company Metal Storm Ltd holds a general meeting. On Wednesday the market closed higher supported by a buoyant ...

Military Super reforms under senate scrutiny

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... of civilian and military schemes. The shadow minister for veterans' affairs, Louise Markus, and the shadow minister for defence science, Bob Baldwin is calling on interested individuals to have their say on the issues, according to a press statement. ...

ComSuper faces executive and admin reforms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... boards of Australian Reward Investment Alliance (ARIA), the Military Superannuation and Benefits Scheme (MSBS) and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme (DFRDB) to form a single trustee board on July 2010. ComSuper's current commissioner ...

Costello lands MD role at advisory firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... independent advisory board of the World Bank," said Stuart. BKK Partners specialises in corporate and strategic advice, takeover defence, merger & acquisitions, capital markets advice and major event briefings for corporates and governments in the Asia ...

More benefits for Military Super

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... benefits payments in line with recent changes to the compulsory retirement age for ADF members. Greg Combet, minister for defence personnel, materiel and science, announced last week that the Rudd Government will improve death and invalidity benefits ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... durable goods jumped by a sharper-than-expected 4.9 per cent in July had little impact on shares. Excluding orders for defence goods and aviation, a number that indicates business investment in production, orders fell 0.3 per cent after a leap of 3.6 ...

RSL calls for super revamp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... in the real cost of living," he said. "The RSL has consistently argued that those who have served their nation in the Defence Force deserve to have the value of their superannuation maintained at least on the same basis as [what] has been adopted for ...

The market's next 800-pound gorilla

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... bluntly, 95 per cent of your budget is locked in, in pensions, aged pensions, single parent pensions, unemployment benefits, defence spending, Medicare, the PBS - all those things which the Australian community expects to continue," said Hockey. "So ...

Superannuation wins in Cabinet reshuffle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... major reshuffle was already on the cards and that the resignation of the accident prone Joel Fitzgibbon as Minister of Defence last week was just the trigger, it took only two days for Prime Minister Rudd to announce changes so sweeping that today twenty ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... massive military build up that includes 100 joint strike fighters, a new fleet submarines, naval helicopters, armored defence vehicles, cruise missiles and early warning systems, largely to meet the growing geopolitical challenge of China in South East ...