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Don't ditch the RET, instos tell Abbott

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
A group of Australia's biggest institutional investors has written an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott calling on him to maintain the Renewable Energy Target (RET). The call came from the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), a body which ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... 53 points at 5,318. Locally, in economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia's head of payments policy department, Tony Richards, is slated to speak at the Chicago Payments Symposium in Chicago. NAB is due to release its inaugural Aust-Asia business ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... lending to businesses which, in the current environment, carries an even A higher probability of default. Perhaps it's time for Tony and Joey to step up to the plate and go Keynesian instead of being pro-cyclical (tightening the budget when the economy ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... ahead, spit that dummy for the heavens appear to have conspired against us, Aussies - not that we need anymore, not with PM Tony and Treasurer Joey at the helm, running a pro-cyclical fiscal policy (that is, running a tight budget in the face of economic ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... night's absence of any real surprises from the US Federal reserve... has helped push US equities out to fresh highs," said Tony Cross, a market analyst at Trustnet Direct. "More critical for the domestic agenda is the fact that markets appear increasingly ...

360 Capital hires BDM from Zurich

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... development and research with Zurich and previously at Blackrock, NAB/ MLC and Perpetual. 360 Capital Group managing director Tony Pitt said: "Matt will play a vital role in developing and growing 360 Capital's retail distribution network, for the benefit ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... the group (and has dragged Australia along with it - but no, we're not sending combat boots on the ground, according to PM Tony Abbott, not yet at least). Think of all the money that'll now be wasted as they are redirected from expanding productive capacity ...

FIIG to manage $50m bond issue for 360 Capital

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
... and Investment Commission or any other regulatory body. FIIG is acting as lead arranger. 360 Capital's managing director Tony Pitt said: "In line with the Group's desire to maintain a 'capital light' strategy and not issue further equity to fund the ...

Abbott's SG claim incorrect, survey finds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... their own - not their employees' - pockets, according to survey commissioned by industry fund Sunsuper. This contradicts Tony Abbott's claim last week that the SG rise, which his government put on hold until 2021, would come "out of workers' pockets". ...

SG freeze to hit young and low income earners hardest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
... the creation of a two-tier super system, with inequitable access to tax concessions depending on income." Prime Minister Tony Abbott defended his decision to freeze the SG on ABC's 7.30 last night, saying: "The SG levy comes out of workers' pockets ...