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PC disability insurance final report released

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... entrenched in legislation. The amount needed could be funded through a combination of cuts in existing lower-priority expenditure, fiscal drag, and if necessary, tax increases," they noted. The PC said the scale of Australia's disability problem is so ...

US ceiling raised but underlying reasons remain

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
The US has avoided potential disaster and signed an agreement to cut fiscal expenditures and increase its federal debt ceiling, but nothing will change if the real issues cannot be addressed - an entire generation of underpaid Americans, said Clime ...

LICs benefit from FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... Tinto and BHP Billiton. Robinson acknowledged the small dividend yield in the mining sector which has huge capital expenditure ratios, but said GMI grossed a yield of 6.3% in the last financial year. The ASX Listed Managed Investments quarterly update ...

Pigs may fly but they won't default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
Rejoice! For the Greek Parliament has passed the government's fiscal austerity measures! Wall Street was happy - the S&P 500 index gained 0.8 per cent on the news - but Europe was euphoric - the Euro Stoxx 50 index jumped 1.9 per cent and the FTSE-100 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... the 2011 Annual Stockbrokers Conference, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), issues data on new capital expenditure and expected expenditure in the March quarter. In equities, Exterra resources Ltd and MRG Metals Ltd list on the Australian ...

Diversified pension policy is best: OECD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... dismantle incentives for early retirement. Another pension policy tension point is some countries have very high pension expenditure as a proportion of GDP yet have very high rates of retiree poverty, highlighting that untargeted pension spending is ...

Super funds fail on carbon disclosure

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... passed, Woodside to annually disclose the carbon price assumptions it uses in its assessment of new and ongoing capital expenditure. The action generated support from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), which has over $300 billion ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Want a growth stock, a real growth stock? Look no further than our very own Australian dollar. After hitting parity with the once mighty greenback back in October last year, it drowned when this year's floods devastated most of Queensland, parts of ...

SMSFs avg balances hit $1m

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
New research from Rainmaker into self-managed super funds confirms that much of what we think we know about the sector is still driven by myths. An analysis the researcher conducted into SMSF figures available from the Australian Taxation Office and ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... deflationary trend - the other bugbear - as the government spends - to rebuild infrastructure and increases welfare expenditure - businesses spend - to rebuild factories, refurnish stocks and restart operations - and consumers spend - to rebuild properties ...