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Vision and Quadrant to co-invest

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... combined investment venture since last year, last month sealed a deal to pool its funds with the larger Victorian fund. Wayne Davy, chief executive of Quadrant Super, said the fund had entered a pooled superannuation trust run by Vision Super. Quadrant ...

Ways to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
"The government is not contemplating another round of cash payments," Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) early this week. This could be interpreted as either the Australian Government does not want to ...

Costello's Future Fund career over before it started

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... the fund, was inline to become "the guardian" of the $58 billion fund. Rumours became so widespread that current Treasurer Wayne Swan was forced to explicitly deny the claims. "I have certainly no plans, or the government has no plans to appoint Mr Costello ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... lost three cents to $16.42. The world's largest miner, BHP Billiton, which appointed former Newmont Mining Corp chairman Wayne Murdy to its board as a non-executive director, retreated $1.09, or 3.06 per cent, to $34.57. Rio Tinto slid $4.38, or 7.59 ...

FSP transitions to Oasis

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... the administration of FSP Portfolio Services' superannuation and IDPS products onto its platform. Oasis managing director Wayne Lowe said the transition was of the "largest transitions ever attempted in our industry." "The $1 billion transfer, which ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), said by the time workers reach 65 years they are already physically "broken". Treasurer Wayne Swan said the government is being forced to act due to increasing pensions costs and workers now normally surviving many decades ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... industry increasingly knows its place in the political landscape. Driving the mooted reaction is how kind the Treasurer Wayne Swan was to the superannuation industry which was quietly fearing a back lash against the high cost of the tax concessions that ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... Federal Budgets handed down - especially towards the second half of the Howard Government and into now Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan's first - provided dwindling interest among Australians. And this is mainly, how much taxes would be cut, how much benefits ...

Budget me a recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... raise taxes for those earning ?100,000 and up next year. Chances are Australia's budget would be the same. Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has already prepped the populace, warning that the budget would be 'hard' and 'unpopular' when he releases it on the ...

Finance job market to recover by 2010

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... unemployment figures to rise to 8 per cent next year. Following the IMF's gloomy forecasts for the global economy, Treasury Wayne Swan last week did not rule out the possibility of Australian unemployment figures hitting double digits in the midst of ...