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OneCare upgrades benefit more workers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
ING Australia has introduced a suite of improvements to its OneCare risk products by broadening the number of occupations that qualify for income protection and providing more relief for medical workers. The income protection cover has been extended ...

World peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
The weekend's G-20 Summit in Toronto is done, but is it dusted? Their communiquA(C) had something for everyone - it contained a framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth, something on financial sector reform, a bit on financial institutions ...

Short form PDS gets green light

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
Super fund members can look forward to an eight-page product disclosure statement (PDS) rather than 80, as new laws announced this week kick in. The new regulations are an important step forward to a new era in disclosure for fund members, said super ...

First femme PM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
The morning after. Either you're still reading the obituaries and the political assassination of Kevin Rudd or you have moved on to congratulate Australia's first femme PM - Julia Gillard. I won't bore you with the details. Pick up any local daily or ...

The art of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
And so it came to pass... a revaluation that's not a revaluation, greater yuan flexibility that's not. Just as you've read on this space yesterday, "experts" were falling all over themselves - and then some - euphorically welcoming China's revaluation ...

SMSF education gains traction

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... Knox, managing director of Paragem, has confirmed over 700 new members have joined up since launch, together with over 17,000 page views. The site is being introduced as an online resource centre for SMSF Trustees and is an educational portal in line ...

Macquarie Life releases flexible insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
Macquarie Life has launched an insurance product that allows clients to make multiple claims under the same policy and provides greater flexibility on the definitions of conditions. The Macquarie Life Active enables clients to claim when circumstance ...

New mining tax is miners' own idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... should shift their blame from the government and instead zero in on the miners themselves because it was their idea. In a 20-page submission to the Henry Review in November 2008, the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) said the inefficiency of volume-based ...

Simple tax is too taxing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... revealed. After rummaging through 1,500 submissions from various sectors of the Australian economy, Dr. Henry produced a 1000-page template with 138 recommendations on simplifying the country's tax system. All well and good...no one will argue about ...

HOSTPLUS and ME drop Melbourne Storm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
HOSTPLUS and ME Bank have terminated their sponsorships with Melbourne Storm in the wake of the NRL scandal. David Elia, chief executive at HOSTPLUS, said the relationship with Melbourne Storm is untenable and has terminated its sponsorship immediately. ...