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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... annual rate of 458,000. In local economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases new capital expenditure and expected expenditure for the September quarter and the HIA new home sales figures for October are due out, as is the ...

Conditions and confidence collide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... that suggests that the non-mining sector of the economy is drinking or about to drink Gov Glenn's water - the capital expenditure index went up by 4 to a reading of 9 in October (well over its long-run average of 5) "which suggests a moderate expansion ...

SMEs embracing accounting in the cloud

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
The overwhelming majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) intend to increase expenditure on cloud accounting technology in the near future, according to a recent survey by Wolters Kluwer. A whopping 96% of respondents said they intended ...

Australia's pension system second best in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... countries. This trend will continue as life expectancy continues to increase and many governments reduce their per capita expenditure on their aged population," Knox said. "This shift means communication to members has never been more important or come ...

HESTA takes stand against thermal coal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... participate in the provision of direct funding via rights issues or share placements to already listed companies for expenditure on business expansion in any of these activities." HESTA's decision follows UniSuper's policy of screening fossil fuel investments ...

No drama at the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... commence." "The pick-up in non-mining economic activity is occurring, albeit gradually." The June quarter capital expenditure survey confirms these. House prices continue to rise but overall labour market conditions "remained subdued". No dramatic changes ...

Retirement phase top issue for super in FSI

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... In its 140 page submission the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) put the emphasis on limiting expenditure on the Age Pension, saying the aim should be to halve the number of Australians dependent on the Age Pension by 2050. ASFA ...

ASFA asks FSI for clear targets to measure super success

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called on the Murray Inquiry to set clear objectives against which the success of superannuation's role in reducing the Age Pension burden on public coffers can be measured. In its latest ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... central and local governments are spending down this year's budgets slowed in July" with the country's total fiscal expenditure slowing to 9.6% in the year to July from 26.1% in the previous month. But the PBOC is not letting up. According to Forbes ...

Integrate next-gen insurance policies into NDIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... government could approach $9 billion over five years if you factored in welfare payment and publicly funded health care expenditure savings. But for life insurance products to play this role she said there would need to be a willingness to redesign policy ...