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Perpetual charity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2007
... legislation, requiring all Australian trustees to demonstrate care and diligence a prudent person would exercise in managing the affairs of others.

Debt climbs, home values fall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... consumer debt soaring. However, a report by the Federal Reserve Board's Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs notes, many US families have been saving less and borrowing more against rising home equity, to continue spending beyond their ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2007
... day of the two-day Australian Gas Markets Conference takes place. In Adelaide, BHP Billiton group manager of corporate affairs for base metals Richard Yeeles addresses the Australian Pipeline Industry dinner. The Australian sharemarket ended yesterday ...

Bank planners promote gearing strategies

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
... them was not a simple process. "By using borrowed funds to contribute to super they give themselves time to plan their affairs. We would expect that most of them will repay their loans within a year or two but some may go longer." Perhaps reflecting ...

Australian Capital Reserve collapses

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
... realisation strategy adopted by the administrators... At this stage, the administrators are undertaking a review of the group's affairs and are not in position to make an estimate." Noteholder information sessions will be held on 4 June at 3.00pm at ...

Centric to improve the health of doctors

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
... diligent, while the healthy incomes enjoyed by many doctors lured them into a state of confidence that their financial affairs would take care of themselves. Many owned homes and "lifestyle assets", said Cooke, but these alone were not enough to ensure ...

Germany lifts retirement age

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... established. Dr Ralf Brauksiepe, a member of the German Bundestag and chairman of the Working Group on Labour and Social Affairs, said in a paper he wrote for the American Association of Retired People (AARP) that, "In view of the demographic trends ...

Baby boomers in good shape

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2007
... acceptable - investment risk," he said. "They can also take advantage of government concessions and structure their financial affairs to pay less tax, as well as downsize their family homes to re-balance their savings to more liquid financial assets. ...

Chairperson of Super Complaints Tribunal reappointed

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
... background is in law and public policy, having previously worked as a solicitor, barrister, Commissioner of Corporate Affairs, Presidential Member of the Federal Administrative Appeals Tribunal and as Australia's inaugural Banking Industry Ombudsman. ...

AUSTRAC's power to be checked

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
... of AUSTRAC, the body that will administer the new AML regime. The Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has proposed a 24-month implementation period for the new AML/CTF regime but a number of industry submissions complained that ...