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PM Gillard: super to support economic stability

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
Prime Minister Julia Gillard spoke of the importance of Australia's super industry as an "anchor" for the economy and the changes ahead in an address to over 600 wealth management professionals in Sydney this morning. In a 30-minute speech discussing ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... lift productivity so that when the 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 ...

Bonds, where the real money is

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... subsequent downgrade and yet another prime ministerial re-shuffle as the Cherry Blossom nation tries out its sixth prime minister in just six years. The next layer in the global bond market maze is which country owns the debt each country is issuing. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... defeated Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaeida in a second round of voting to effectively become Japan's sixth new Prime Minister in five years. The US dollar edged up to 76.69 yen from 76.65 in Tokyo afternoon trade. The voting came after Naoto Kan ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... Thursday but well up from the record low 75.95 yen it hit last Friday. News that Naoto Kan had stepped down as prime minister of Japan had little effect on markets, dealers said, as it had been widely expected ahead of a vote next week on his successor. ...

PC disability insurance final report released

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... establish fully-funded social insurance schemes to commence in 2015. While not formally endorsing the report, the Prime Minister has already agreed to set-up an advisory panel to be chaired by Dr Jeff Hamer AO and to present the report to COAG so it ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... the sharpest falls. Investor concern rose further after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had told Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to ensure Italy's parliament approved an austerity budget to send "a very important signal" to the markets. ...

Carbon blast from the GST past

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Yes, I know. It was very conspicuous -- the absence of even a single line of commentary on this space over Prime Minister Gillard's Sunday announcement of the carbon tax nitty-gritties. I didn't want to jump the gun or add my still confused thoughts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... rose 4.69 per cent, or 48.80 points, to 1,090.28 after the opposition Puea Thai party, led by the sister of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, won a huge and decisive election victory on Sunday. In other markets, Singapore closed 0.46 per cent ...

Labor moves to justify super existence

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... Services and Superannuation, Mathias Cormann. "Mr Shorten has again failed to explain why Dr Ken Henry, now the Prime Minister's private adviser, got it wrong and why Labor thinks it has got it right with its push to reduce take home pay for low and ...