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Climate change rhetoric unsustainable

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
The reaction to the proposed plastic bag levy and expected energy price rises due to having to pay for carbon output shows Australia may not be as committed to sustainability as we claim to be. Australia is the nation which has the most signatories ...

Ventura breaks benchmark shackles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... underlying managers include Fund Alliance Bernstein Global, Bernstein Investment Asset Value, MFS Institutional Advisers, Jacobs Levy Equity Management, Institutional Capital Corporation, Turner Investment Partners and AEW Management and Advisors. In ...

Russell rejigs international funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
Russell Investment Group has reorganised its international equities exposure, replacing Jacobs Levy and Altrinsic with ClariVest Asset Management and adding Harris Associates to its list of fund managers. Founded in March 2006, ClariVest's investment ...

Economic round-up: Cheeseburger bill meets fat tax

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2007
... litigation, researchers from the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham investigated various economic models and how a fat tax levy added to a third of the food chain could, by affecting buying habits, stem the tide of obesity. The Journal of Epidemiology ...

Fin services not delivering

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2007
... the data doesn't support it. As an export industry it's totally failed. It was given a free kick with the superannuation levy but it appears it hasn't done much with it." Evans said part of the problem is always focusing on the amount of funds under ...

Russell adds two to international fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
... Management (17.5 per cent), MFS Institutional Advisors (17.5 per cent), Institutional Capital Corporation (11.6 per cent), Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc (12.6 per cent), Ark Asset Management Co, Inc (5.4 per cent); Turner Investment Partners Inc ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2006
... work more as a result of flat tax schemes. The sugar industry has rejected claims by the Australian Industry Group that the levy on sugar imports should be dropped following the improved prices for the commodity and the pick up in the industry over the ...

Taxman fee for DIY funds trebles

... treble from $45 to $150 as part of the government's proposed superannuation reforms, effective 1 July 2007. The 'supervisory levy' increase of $105 per year will be used to give the ATO more money to monitor and supervise the sector, which is growing ...

Govt supervisory levy revenue to jump 3 per cent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2006
The government has announced the new supervisory levy rates that will apply to entities that wish to operate under APRA and ASIC jurisdiction. The rates will be similar to those that applied last year, said Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer ...

SG not a tax: Tax Inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... superannuation in any way. "Putting money into superannuation is a very effective investment," they said. In including the Medicare levy in the taxation calculations, the authors of the report did acknowledge that as a tax though how they treated other ...