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Top 10 budget quotes

Financial Standard sifts through a record haul of budget commentary to highlight the industry's thinking on the government's budget announcement last night. "Commonsense has prevailed with the non-concessional contribution cap remaining unchanged." ...

Tonight's the night

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
It's Budget lock-up day tonight in Canberra. The day when the who's who of the Australian economics and the reporting world are held incommunicado for six hours until the grand unveiling of the Government's plan for the future. The official rationale ...

Govt continues to target high income HHs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Speculation the government will cut back the health insurance rebate for high income earners lends weight to where it might wield the superannuation axe. A story published this morning in the Australian newspaper reports that the health insurance rebate ...

ING upgrades OneCare

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
ING Australia has changed the 90-day waiting period rules for trauma insurance, upgraded the cover for male specific cancer and enhanced OneCare Express e-application. Announced yesterday, ING Australia head of marketing and retail products for life ...

De-stressing the stress test

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
Only a couple of weeks ago the US triad - US Federal Reserve, Treasury and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - were stressing over how best to release the result of the stress test they issued to 19 of their banks. They found a way. Back ...

Instinet makes a splash Down Under

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
Trading technology specialist Instinet is expanding its presence in Australia and is adopting its global products and algorithms to suit the needs of local fund managers and super funds. Established nearly 40 years ago in the US, Instinet provides electronic ...

ANZ Super reviews trustees

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
The $1.7 billion ANZ Staff Superannuation Scheme is on the hunt for trustees to join its board - a move that echoes Westpac Staff Super's recent call for members to elect two directors to its own board. Over the next few months, ANZ will be holding ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
The Australian share market is pointing toward a higher opening despite modest falls on Wall Street in a day of choppy trade. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 29 points at 3,705. In economic news on Wednesday ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Surprise! The exclamation would almost always put a smile on anyone's face especially when the expected worst turns into a welcome better. Financial markets have been bombarded day after day after day with news that went from bad to worse to worst for ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger, Danger! No. I am not talking about the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new World Economic Outlook report detailing how its forecasters changed their mind (again!) and now think that global growth would contract by ...