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Plan 5 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... from July 2013. A, "Reassessment" of the EUR500bn ceiling on the EFSF/ESM in March 2012 and a change to qualified majority voting from mutual agreement (subject to Finnish approval). A, Additional resources for the IMF of up to EUR200bn through bilateral ...

Government confirms super guarantee age limit abolished

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... confirmed that the amendment to abolish the age limit made it through the Lower House last week, despite the Opposition voting against it. The new legislation means that from July 2013, up to 51,000 eligible workers aged 70 and over will receive the ...

FOFA will pass: Shorten, FPA

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... "The Government has a 95% success rate in getting its bills through parliament," said De Gori. De Gori then analysed the voting history of the Independents and predicted that while some had expressed reservations about certain parts of FOFA, the majority ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... in first half underlying profit due to falling equity markets. News Corporation lifted 35 cents to $16.86, and its non-voting shares were up 35 cents at $16.53. The company maintained earnings guidance for 2011/12, after reporting a "great start" the ...

Machines of loving grace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... maturing Treasury securities at auction." Those expecting a QE3 were not disappointed. It was kept alive by a lone dissenter. "Voting against the action was Charles L. Evans, who supported additional policy accommodation at this time." In classic Fedspeak ...

New insto governance service launched

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... was a senior analyst. Ownership Matters will offer services including governance reporting, customised analysis, proxy voting research and litigation support as expert witnesses.

IOOF takeover receives 99% approval

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
Eligible DKN shareholders have expressed full support for the proposed takeover by IOOF Holdings, voting 99% in favour of the move. In a shareholder meeting to vote on the proposed Scheme of Arrangement, 98.2% of DKN shareholders registered their vote ...

Snowball reports 3pc rise in profits following Shadforth merger

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... of the merger. Officium Group, originally a large shareholder in Shadforth, which ended up with more than 58.9% of the voting power in Snowball, has had 69.6 million Snowball Group shares released from escrow representing 49% of the voting power of the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... yen, with the unit barely moving on the news Noda defeated Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaeida in a second round of voting to effectively become Japan's sixth new Prime Minister in five years. The US dollar edged up to 76.69 yen from 76.65 in Tokyo ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... lotsa lotsa greenbacks. Yes I know, I know. Everybody's still debating whether the Fed's quantitative easing worked. FOMC voting member Charles Plosser's remarks about debt ceiling could also apply to QE3. "It could be very bad. At some level we don't ...