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Retail spending stays flat during April

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
Total retail turnover maintained its near-zero growth pattern during April, reinforcing earlier trend figures that retail spending is no longer increasing as the economy begins to slow down. According to the ABS, retail turnover during April was $20.1 ...

Abu Dhabi opens investment doors

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
... the city's financial district, Al Suwwah Island is expected to house an outlet of the Cleveland Clinic, a US teaching hospital. It's understood that the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adic), which was established in 1977 to focus on regional and domestic ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
Treasurer Wayne Swan has donned his hardhat and launched Australia on a massive $40 billion nation building program centred on three new investment funds designed to fix infrastructure, health and education while also kick starting Australia's regional ...

Abacus banks on new wave of tourists

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Tourists from the US and Japan may be down but hotel property investments are still a good bet thanks to a growing number of visitors from China, Korea and India, according to Abacus Funds Management. Abacus claims Australia's hospitality industry would ...

Sunsuper appoints board member

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
Sunsuper has appointed Ron Monaghan, Queensland president of the Australian Labor Party, to director of the company's board. Monaghan was elected general secretary of the Queensland Council of Unions in November last year. He remains a board director ...

Insurance that gives and gives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
... Australia, Reach, Oxfam Australia, The Salvation Army, Starlight Children's Foundation Australia, the Royal Children's Hospital and the Royal Institute for the Deaf and Blind Children. The Baker Heart Research Institute, the Australian Advisory Board ...

Super gender gap narrows

Men still have double the savings in super than women but a new report shows that women are fast catching up. The Association of Superannuation Funds in Australia (ASFA) used data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Survey of Income and Housing ...

Non-TFN tax attack

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... are travelling, ill or institutionalised may not be able to supply their TFN which could impact their insurance. "The hospital patients who cannot submit their details to their superannuation funds may lose their Life, Total and Permanent Disability ...

Killer inflation - three fatalities

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
While the RBA flags the dangers of growing consumer spending on our rising inflation, China's rocketing inflation and consumer demand have proved to be a killer. Literally. Australia's employment growth was softer than expected in October, however Westpac's ...

Catholic Super feels better now

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
... rate. The Medibank Private VIP cover includes a corporate discount up to five per cent, no excess for children on VIP hospital covers and a free biannual dentist check-up. As part of the new offering, both two and six month waiting periods will be waived ...