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Sherry will keep his job despite super blooper: Latham

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2004
... pension plan announcement, Opposition Leader Mark Latham said today. Senator Sherry this week apologised for an $8 billion mistake in the opposition's pension policy after Treasurer Peter Costello said the policy had been incorrectly calculated. Latham ...

Labor says we were wrong on super blooper

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2004
... latest pensions promise and confessed it had no plans to pay retirees an extra $25-a-week. The opposition owned up to the mistake after Treasurer Peter Costello seized on Opposition Leader Mark Latham's definition of the pension benchmark. Latham said ...

Boral chair, NAB board member says directors can make mistakes

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2004
... chairman and National Australia Bank board member Ken Moss said yesterday investors could not expect company directors to be "mistake free". Dr Moss said while it was the board's job to minimise risk within a company, directors should not be so inhibited ...

American wheat growers slam FTA

... agreement did not address the inequities inherent in the AWB monopoly," he said in a statement. "Negotiators made the same mistake when the US signed the original free trade agreement with Canada, and American wheat producers are still subject to the ...

IMF admits mistakes in controversial handling of Asia crisis

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) admitted today it made mistakes in its controversial handling of the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis which put affected countries under stringent programs. Charles Adams, assistant director of the IMF Office for ...

Boutique fund warns investors of current market dangers

Returns-starved retail investors appear ready to once again chase fast returns via the equities markets, despite recent lessons about the dangers, boutique funds manager SAITeysMcMahon has warned. Company director Judy MacMahon said the danger in the ...

"You have every right to be disappointed": AMP's Willcox

AMP's chairman Peter Willcox has attempted to defuse shareholder anger at today's Annual General Meeting by accepting responsibility for past mistakes and defending the $2.6 billion in writedowns announced on May 1. "You have every right to be disappointed ...

APRA warns super trustees on due diligence, members interests

The likelihood that superannuation funds will record two consecutive years of negative returns does not indicate below par performance at trustee level, but any action contrary to members' interests will bring disqualification and possible prosecution ...