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Looming pension deeming rules "lack clarity"

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... Pension income testA "only needed two more votes to be passed by the House of Representatives." "We have ten months to get our heads around these." George said despite the likelihood of the bill to be passed, there was "scant" information. "I have looked ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... the wages of the CEO was tied to company profitability and the company's share price performance. The more working class heads the head honcho chops, the more dineros he takes home in salary, shares and stock options. Take Telstra boss David Thodey ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... previous month -- the highest level since 6.1% in July 2003. The employment numbers were even more disappointing, with 3,700 heads taken off the payrolls in January (15,000 jobs added expected). Worst still, a large drop in full time positions (down ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... Street lighten up their risks portfolios just a day after assured you, I and Irene that the US Federal Reserve which she now heads would follow the roadmap set by our old friend Ben. And heck, Yellen even added a sweetener. "Crossing one of these thresholds ...

Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
You, I and Irene can bury our collective heads in the sand but we can't escape Toyota's announcement that it would tailgate Ford and then Holden out of Australia and then... Australia's car manufacturing industry would be no more when 2017 turns into ...

Fund manager criticises "rip-off" fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... that McFarlane describes as a "rip-off." "On-going management fees of 80 basis points is the model that we all have in our heads for active funds for institutional investors and the industry has pursued with that despite the electronic revolution and ...

Li likes 7%, maybe 7.2%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014

Up, up, prices are up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... participation in the Australian labour market - down to 64.6% (the lowest level since mid-2006) in December - or the 22,600 heads taken out of the employment roster in the same month. This isn't consistent with the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute ...

Robertson and Wadell out in AMP reshuffle

HARRY PAGE, ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
... on a more strategic role. The wider changes announced yesterday include: AMP group executive Pauline Blight-Johnston who heads the Insurance and Superannuation division has made three appointments to her leadership team. Megan Beer will join AMP from ...

Fear not the fugly jobs report

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014