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Budget tightening to hit IMR

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... Australia as a Financial Centre released in January 2010, Heferen commented on the changed thinking with regard to revenue expenditure. "One of the tricky things in working through those recommendations is that, at least insofar as they relate to the ...

Flawed assumptions pushing RRR too high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... the idea that retirees need to save huge sums of money to fund their retirement lifestyle and whether retiree annual expenditure is stable as they age or goes down. Most retirement income standards imply retiree expenditure is stable across age groups. ...

Australia doesn't need a SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... fiscal responsibility. "A sovereign wealth fund actually weakens the incentive for future governments to reform the expenditure-side of the budget and to spend more wisely by easing their overall revenue and borrowing constraint," argued the report. ...

Cutting super tax breaks unwise: SPAA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... poor," said the Senator. "Tax breaks on superannuation cost the budget $30 billion a year, as Treasury's latest Tax Expenditure Statement [released 31/1/2012] showed, with almost half of the concessions on contributions going to the top 12% of income ...

AustralianSuper, AGEST reveal merger plans

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... large fund with strong growth, which would be difficult to achieve in the medium term without significantly increased expenditure. "AustralianSuper was selected as the best fit for AGEST because of its consistent investment performance, commitment to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... investors turned away amid jitters about the state of the global economy. "The sector needs massive amounts of capital expenditure over the next few years so we're seeing some risk coming off the table," Ms Lee said. The big four banks were also lower ...

Waiting to exhale 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
So here we are... in another "waiting to exhale" moment. Like I, me and Irene expected, volatility's picked up ahead of the unveiling of yet another European Grand Plan. It's Plan Numero Five this time. And like the anticipation that went before Plans ...

RBA right to cut rates and correct to hold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... in the non-mining economy" but "growth in domestic demand... is still expected to be strong...with gross national expenditure increasing at a rate of around 4 per cent". Not gangbusters but still a decent rate by any standard. Internationally, despite ...

FOFA implementation time vital: ASFA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... implement the reforms in an "appropriate fashion". "Even at the best of time it is a considerable risk to authorise the expenditure of resources based on draft legislation," said Vamos. "In the context of FOFA, where there have been material differences ...

Infra transport spending to jump 123%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
... CBRE have just released a report detailing 20 years of transport infrastructure in Australia and in it they estimate expenditure between 2011-20 will increase 123%. Transport infrastructure development sends important signals to the industrial property ...