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Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... Chindia resources boom peters out in 20-30 years time we'll be ready. Former prime minister Kevin Rudd must be ruing how this debate is so much like a re-run of his mining industry super profits tax policy. It's as if the former PM's mistake was that ...

Challenger taps CFSGAM head for retirement product

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... thinking is needed in this area and is committed to innovative research," he said in an email. Cooper said much of the debate around optimal retirement income strategies has been based - improperly - on accumulation-phase strategies and thinking such ...

NZ Govt to enrol extra 1m into Kiwisaver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... million were via government subsidies that included tax credits and the $NZ1,000 'kick-start' bonus. Further complicating the debate is a recent NZ Treasury report released last month, KiwiSaver: An Initial Evaluation of the Impact on Retirement Saving ...

Good news from bad stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... prospects (hope?) for more Fed stimulation coming our way. This is what equity markets are pricing in right here, right now. Debate over whether or not this is the right path for the Fed to take or whether or not the previous ones helped but at this ...

SMSFs could use email for SuperStream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... email to send the data. SMSFs were likely to be excluded from SuperStream's auto-consolidation measures, he said. Lively debate was held at the open forum of the conference later in the day, with attendees concerned about industry wrangling and the ease ...

Super funds to provide standard risk measure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... their websites. "That information will be monitored by regulators and also available to commentators, which will stimulate debate and the process will be reviewed further down the line," said David Graus, director of policy, Association of Superannuation ...

Agreement reached on debt ceiling

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... were widely predicted in the event of default. The compromise proposal, must still pass a vote in both houses where the debate about raising the debt ceiling has been both bitter and protracted. With two days to spare, President Obama urged both Republicans ...

Complicating the simple

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... it'll save the US economy - and the world - from drowning? US politicians from both sides of the ideological divide can debate and argue all they want over taxes, spending, deficits and debt after they've crossed this bridge. Oh yes, they all know that ...

D-E-B-T

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
Let's talk about debt baby. D-E-B-T the four letters that's currently giving political leaders massive headaches, financial markets their jitters and gold its shine. With only two weeks to go before the debt ceiling blows up and bites their collective ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... prevented the US stock market from having its worst week in nearly a year. Investors seemed to largely ignore the ongoing debate in Washington over raising the country's borrowing limit. Troubling questions over Europe's financial health and manufacturing ...