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Volcker Rule dramatics continue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
The Volcker rule intended to be help protect banks from future failure is being torn between critics who think it will gut the US corporate bond market and Congressmen who think it still contains too many loopholes. Meanwhile, former US Treasury Secretary ...

Exec pay in Australia too high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... Packard for a base salary of $1 while Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer has a base pay of $650,000, and a bonus last year of the same amount. "For the head of human resources at one of our major companies to receive $5 million this year ...

Sounds like a plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... Stability Mechanism - from July 2013 to July next year. And, if they pull this one off, they might even get a lending hand bonus from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Sounds like a plan. The bad news - the problem has been kicked down the road ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
Change is the only constant. Many of you gentle readers would have noticed the change in my stance these past few weeks - not overnight as reader Paul accuse - over the state of the global economy and financial markets. Let me explain why am not in ...

ACSI: executive salaries soar above share value

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... chief executives for S&P/ASX 100 companies rose by 31% while Top 100 ASX Australian companies increased 131% and the median bonus increase 190%. "The past 10 years have been far better for CEOs of Top 100 companies than investors given the annual cash ...

IFM hits back at claims it plays politics with super fund money

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... advertising campaigns. Under the Federal Government's award system, industry funds are given default fund status, giving them bonus member accounts from workers who go with the default fund set by their employer.

ASX new CEO remains on Tabcorp board

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... Banking Group before that. Funke Kupper will be paid $1,750,000 (inclusive of superannuation) per year and could receive a bonus of $1,500,000 per annum, subject to performance of the group which will be assesed against targets and priorities set by ...

NZ Govt to enrol extra 1m into Kiwisaver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... last financial year, A$800 million were via government subsidies that included tax credits and the $NZ1,000 'kick-start' bonus. Further complicating the debate is a recent NZ Treasury report released last month, KiwiSaver: An Initial Evaluation of the ...

AMP/AXA's Integra moves to MLC's Garvan

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
Integra Financial Services has changed licensees, swapping AMP/AXA for MLC, citing a better business model as the driving force behind their decision. Integra has joined MLC owned dealer group, Garvan Financial Planning after 14 years with dealer group ...

Macquarie may slash jobs in dip

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... restore its returns. "Data on announced M&A (mergers and acquisitions) indicate that market share loss continues and the post-bonus exodus of staff appears to have also continued... meaning we are not expecting a near-term recovery of revenues," Nason ...