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Sg CPF increases min member limits

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
The A$96 billion Singapore Central Provident Fund (CPF) has increased the minimum sum (MS) that retirees must leave in the scheme to fund their pension. The new MS is now A$130,000, up 5 per cent, which the CPF said should be sufficient to ensure that ...

Economic round-up: Wage wars

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
In Western Australia some small businesses have had to close because they cannot compete in the wage wars with mining companies who are offering premium pay packets to workers. There is increasing pressure on the hospitality, retail and manufacturing ...

Count's biggest losers donate $90k

... Charitable Foundation. This year it will distribute more than $600,000 to charities including The Cancer Council, Royal Hospital for Women Foundation, BeyondBlue and the Salvation Army. "Count advisers are there to look after your financial wellbeing ...

Economic round-up: Hey big spenders

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
With tax cuts on the way and consumer confidence at a 32 year high, it seems Australians are staking out the stores and car yards with smoking wallets and little thought of the consequential pressure applied to inflation. The general consensus among ...

HOSTPLUS tailors fin lit to Gen X and Gen Y

Industry super fund HOSTPLUS is forging a new path to reach its Gen X and Gen Y super fund members, launching a financial literacy program specifically for 20 to 30-somethings. This month, the fund partnered with Scott Pape, author of the bestseller ...

MFS goes on a shopping spree

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
Listed investment group MFS has been on a buying spree of late, announcing it had entered into an agreement to purchase another New Zealand advisory firm, taking a 40 per cent stake in an Australian funds management business and launching an off-market ...

AUI bulks up healthcare property portfolio

... and retail developments in North Mackay recently. Of greatest significance to us is the newly completed Mater Private Hospital across the road from our properties, making our site part of a substantial medical precinct for North Mackay." This is the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
The most recent monthly retail trade data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that in seasonally adjusted terms the turnover for the retail and hospitality services sector increased by 0.9 per cent in January after rises of 0.2 per cent in ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
Retail trade data from the ABS has just been released showing that the seasonally adjusted estimate of turnover for the retail and hospitality/services sectors increased by 0.3 per cent in December after the 0.2 per cent November rise and that of 0.8 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
Some good news with respect to Australia's skills development and technological strength following the announcement by Education, Science and Training Minister Julie Bishop that the national science organisation CSIRO will receive $2.5 billion in funding. ...