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Superannuation needs change: Keating

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... government-run longevity insurance fund to help provide a better retirement to people who are living longer, said former Prime Minister Paul Keating. Speaking today at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Conference, Keating said ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... Club, NBN chief executive Mike Quigley speaks at an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia function and former prime minister Paul Keating opens the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia conference in Sydney. OrotonGroup, Cabcharge and ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... in Tokyo enjoyed a third straight rally due to the yen's weakness after the front-runner to become Japan's next prime minister said he would push for unlimited monetary easing if his party won next month's general election. Tokyo climbed 1.43 per cent ...

Senior members announced to Industry Super Network board

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... Bracks was Premier of Victoria for almost eight years, winning successive elections. He now advises the Timor-Leste prime minister and several leading Australian finance and service sector corporations. He also acts as the Australian Government's automotive ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... Policy. In equities news, Macmahon Holdings is due to hold its annual general meeting. Also, special adviser to the prime minister and NAB board member Dr Ken Henry is due to give the keynote speech at the Australian Sustainability Conference and Exhibition ...

Market wrap Early AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... exchange's key index fell by five per cent however, with the banking stocks sub-index plunging by 11.7 per cent. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has said the coffers in Athens will run dry on November 16 unless his country receives the next 31.2 ...

Financial services outstrip mining: CommSec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... subsequent stimulus measures are likely to prop up demand. Furthermore, the rise of the Chinese middle class and Prime Minister Julia Gillard's push more engagement with the 'Asian century' should further advance trade with the East. "Our relationship ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... respectively, because of high inflation, slowing consumption and its huge fiscal deficit. That may be so but Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's administration and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are now doing something about these challenges. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... $US49.50. The Nasdaq composite rose 6.51 points to 3,120.04. Indexes took a turn lower at midday after Spain's prime minister said that he's not preparing a request for a bailout loan. Traders have been anticipating that the Spanish government would ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... they, would they not... request for a bailout? The answer is crucial for investors but is in conflict with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's political fortune and his less than 10-month old government. This is because it's only after Spain formally ...