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Industry leaders urge Abbott to keep super rebate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... Atkin and AustralianSuper's Ian Silk; heads of industry bodies including the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees' Tom Garcia and Women in Super's Catherine Wood; and also academics from the University of New South Wales and the University ...

It's the twit not the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013

Debt, deficit, now deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013

Super funds 'fair game' for activist scrutiny

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... investments, such as Local Government Super and HESTA, have no stated policy on fossil fuels. According to AIST chief executive Tom Garcia, the disclosure requirements are only going to get more stringent. "The debate about transparency is over," he ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
Australian stocks have opened higher after Wall Street's Dow Jones and S&P 500 both hit fresh record highs. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said the local market was benefiting from the US' solid lead, although trading volumes were likely to remain ...

AIST slams independent director quota

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
Tom Garcia, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), has hit out at the Government's plan to set a quota of independent members on industry super fund boards, calling it a 'number one issue' for AIST. Speaking at ...

Reinsurance specialist boosts Australian team

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... experience in the finance and insurance sector and his last executive roles were at Suncorp, Wesfarmers Insurance and Zurich. Tom Harvey has been appointed as a catastrophe analyst, developing models to predict the impact of bushfires, floods and other ...

Calendar says buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
They did it again! Yes Virginia, Washington did what most Tom, Dick and Harriet expected it would do. It reached a compromise deal at the 11th hour. Wall Street's happy, especially those who stayed the course and saw through the political shenanigans ...

Last minute deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
Stop the clock! A deal has been forged in Washington! Yes Virginia, it again played out as scripted - after so much grandstanding, with both sides holding their ground and a lotta hullabaloos...an agreement was struck...at the last minute. Were it not ...

Obama expected to pick Yellen as US Fed chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
US President Barack Obama will nominate Federal Reserve vice-chair Janet Yellen to be the next head of the US central bank, White House officials have said. If confirmed by the Democrat controlled US Senate, Yellen would become the first woman to hold ...