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SuperStream levy unclear

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
The Financial Services Council has raised concerns on the expenditure of monies levied on the industry to pay for SuperStream and the manner in which they are to be raised. Speaking at public hearings of the Parliamentary Joint Committee Inquiry into ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is due to release data on private new capital expenditure and expected expenditure for March quarter 2012 and building approvals for April, while the Reserve Bank of Australia ((RBA) ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... more than the expected 0.4% gain. Capex. Happy consumers spend. Businesses happy. Actual total private new capital expenditure jumped by 30% in the year to December 2011. The ABS reports that "Estimate 1 for 2012-13 is $172,887m. This is 28.2% higher ...

What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... beer. I - While there are still a lotta investments going on in the resources sector of the economy, total capital expenditure have started to contract at the margin. Business investment fell by 0.3% in the December quarter, a sharp reversal from the ...

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 ...