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Blue Sky acquires majority stake in HPS

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... care to clients, patients and the wider community." Blue Sky Private Equity investment director Nick Dignam added, "Expenditure on healthcare per capita is increasing, which is providing growth for hospital pharmacies' key customers, hospitals and oncology ...

Australian stocks open lower on China concerns

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... record lows. "China has been trying to do whatever they can to keep their economy on its feet," she said. "But capital expenditure in China has fallen and many are asking: `What does this all mean for the export of our goods and the demand for our commodities' ...

GST increase would deliver $42 billion: FSC

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... in 2015-16," Bragg said. "The states are increasingly relying on inefficient, growth-destroying taxes to meet their expenditure needs. This has created a grossly inefficient and unwieldy tax base. Victoria and the Northern Territory have increased stamp ...

Labor demands to see Treasury papers on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... concessions prior to this year's budget. A Freedom of Information request by Labor to federal Treasury allegedly shows the Expenditure Review Committee, chaired by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, was considering changes to superannuation tax concessions ...

ISA appoints retirement policy adviser

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... tax and income security policies. He is also credited with conceptualising and modelling the demographic and social expenditure impacts for the first three Intergenerational Reports (2002, 2007, 2010) and the medium term projections in Budgets and updates ...

Animal spirits may be playing with fire

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
Animal spirits are playing a significant role in expenditure decisions by Australian firms even though rates of return and other influences may offer a more unbiased company position. This is one the key findings among research from the Reserve Bank ...

QIC asks government to step up, break toxic cycle

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... shock if policy makers stick to this idea that what we can't do is stimulate the economy through any form of fiscal expenditure," Peter finished.

Buy-back boom driven by loose Fed policy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... a very sensible corporate capital allocation strategy, but should this use of capital crowd out long-term capital expenditure (investment) in a firm's core business, or begin to threaten its credit quality, then it can become concerning," he said. "And ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... outlook slips 'from bleak to recessionary'" (theage.com) The "bleak" set of numbers: Actual total private new capital expenditure dropped by 4.4% over the March quarter and 5.3% over the year. The "recessionary" set of numbers: "Estimate 2 for 2015-16 ...

Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... sector credit data. In Australia, the market on Thursday closed lower after the release of worse than expected capital expenditure figures. Business investment fell 4.4 per cent in the March quarter, and is expected to fall further in the coming financial ...