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Health Super gives aid to fire victims

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
Health Super is helping bushfire victims by donating their call centre staff services, giving blood, and offering essentials to aid those in need. The $7.6 billion industry fund has donated the services of its call centre staff to the Red Cross Call ...

Sherry attacks Hockey on super policy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Minister for superannuation and corporate law, Senator Nick Sherry has called on new shadow treasurer Joe Hockey to drop the Liberal Party's "dangerous, uncosted and job-killing mess" of a superannuation policy. Prior to Hockey's appointment, the Opposition ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
The Australian share market again has received mixed leads from overseas overnight, with Wall Street indices down, precious metals lower, but copper and oil both were higher. At 0722 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was ...

Pearce rejects "sloppy" league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Shadow minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law, Chris Pearce has sided with IFSA in slamming the government's proposed plan to publish superannuation option performance tables. He said the government's chosen method is "sloppy" ...

APRA fund level reporting proposals dangerous

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
The Investment and Financial Services Association has rejected the APRA proposals for how the regulator should disclose fund returns to consumers. In a discussion paper released yesterday, IFSA said, "APRA's plan to publish trust level ROA [return on ...

Investor knowledge fuels SMSF growth

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
The growth of SMSFs is holding steady amid the market downturn, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). SPAA chief executive Andrea Slattery, said the number of SMSFs established has remained constant between 2,500 to 3,000 ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive... that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet (it)." America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... savings they accumulated during the good times is too much for the Opposition to bear. C'est la vie. Politically, Rudd is in danger of becoming a one-termer if the global financial crisis is allowed to ravage the Australian economy - the Opposition's ...

Don't worry, be happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... has plenty in their war chests to cushion the financial tsunami that is afflicting most countries around the world. The danger for Australia, and for other countries indirectly touched by the financial sector maelstrom, is that their expectations that ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... means is that more job losses are in store as each try to stay afloat by cutting expenses - labour being the biggest. The danger is that this could become a vicious cycle. Lower demand forces companies to cut costs by reducing staff numbers. Workers ...