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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... got a lift from the latest call from activist Carl Icahn for more share buybacks from Apple. Icahn told Apple in an open letter he believes its shares are worth $US240 ($A298.45). That sent the largest US company by market capitalisation up 1.1 per cent ...

Forward guidance at its best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... even decline below that. "The near-term weakness means that it is more likely than not that I will have to write an open letter to the Chancellor in the next six months on account of the inflation rate falling below 1%." Got it? There won't be any lift-off ...

Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... Capital, AustralianSuper, Colonial First State, BT Group, UniSuper, HESTA, Cbus and BlackRock - also wrote Tony Abbott an open letter calling for the Renewable Energy Target (RET) to be upheld. It appeared as a full-page ad in the Australian Financial ...

Don't ditch the RET, instos tell Abbott

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
A group of Australia's biggest institutional investors has written an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott calling on him to maintain the Renewable Energy Target (RET). The call came from the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), a body which ...

Industry leaders urge Abbott to keep super rebate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... industry executives have urged the government to go ahead with the low-income superannuation contribution (LISC) in an open letter to the Prime Minister. Signatories include well-known super fund bosses such as HOSTPLUS's David Elia, Cbus's David Atkin ...

Sinodinos aims at "fixing the messes" inherited from Labor

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... is to minimise complexity that stimulates the demand for expensive accounting, legal and tax advice," he said in an open letter. Commenting on his appointment as Assistant Treasurer, he said that "having previously worked in the Treasury and the Finance ...

Gina Rinehart offers olive branch

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... to an end, a court has heard. Ms Rinehart's barrister, David Russell QC, told the Supreme Court on Monday that the "open letter" was to John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart, two of her four children. The letter, which was handed over this morning, states ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... November, Bloomberg reported that, "A group of 23 economists, money managers and former government officials issued an open letter to Bernanke on Nov. 15 saying the central bank's planned bond purchases "risk currency debasement and inflation" and won't ...

Industry funds, independent platforms stand up for FOFA reforms

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... to the reforms, calling it self-serving. In the latest chapter, AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk wrote an open letter to the Financial Review calling the opposition to the axing of volume rebates and opt-in arrangements a desperate rearguard ...

SG war far from over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... Reynolds was responding to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Peter Anderson who wrote in an open letter in a major newspaper that, "The superannuation industry claims that compulsory levies should fund retirement incomes ...