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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... Tuesday, the Australian share market reversed early gains to close one per cent lower, as investors worried over the federal budget and the effectiveness of the $1 trillion bailout for debt-laden euro zone economies. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... share price index contract was 55 points higher at 4,665 points. Dominating economic news on Tuesday will be the federal budget, to be handed down on Tuesday evening. Competing for attention, Dun and Bradstreet releases its initial business expectations ...

MySuper proposal ignites storm

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... face considerable political hurdles as the report due in June this year will be released immediately following the Federal Budget, within months of a Federal election and before the government has formalised its response to the Ripoll advice practices ...

Good news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... an executive order tomorrow that would create a bi-partisan commission to advise on ways to lower the America's federal budget deficit - currently at 10 per cent -- to 3 per cent of GDP by 2015. This looks like a tough ask. But if the US and global economy ...

IGR signals tax and health reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... economic growth. "These challenges will place substantial pressure on economic growth, living standards and the federal budget over the next 40 years," said Treasurer Wayne Swann in a statement. The biggest jumps in required government expenditure will ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
... administration raised taxes, cut back spending and tightened monetary policy in 1937 in efforts to restore the federal budget back in balance. Just as now, improvements in economic indicators (mis)led it to believe that happy days are here again. Wrong! ...

Too many choices, too many fees: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... contribution levels. But the interim Henry report into retirement income policy released alongside this year's Federal Budget rejected the need to raise the SG beyond its current 9 per cent. The Treasury report means the government will most likely seek ...

Investors shift more money outside super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
The increasing number of government reviews and recent Federal Budget changes to super have prompted clients to boost investments outside of super to fund their retirement, said Centric Wealth advisers. According to Anne-Marie Esler, technical services ...

REST members get $74m boost

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... before the co-contribution drops from 150 per cent to 100 per cent on 1 July 2009 as was announced in the recent Federal Budget. "The current economic conditions have reinforced how important it is for members to continue to invest regularly in their ...

Working mothers caught in tax snafu

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... is looming as a major focus of the Henry Taxation Review, particularly as the interim report released with the Federal Budget argued that superannuation tax benefits are disproportionately tilted in favour of high income earners.