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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... earnings. Political uncertainty also kept buyers at bay ahead of Japan's election Sunday, with voter surveys suggesting Prime Minister Taro Aso's ruling party is likely to be swept from power after half a century of almost unbroken rule. The benchmark ...

Cuscal partners with Payment Adviser

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... Australians and the SME sector represents 95 per cent of employers in the country. "The government - most recently the Prime Minister himself - has called for innovation and increased efficiency in Australia's superannuation system," said Lovney. Payment ...

Super must become more efficient: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in his latest essay said superannuation should become more efficient and improve its net investment returns. In a widely publicised 6000 word manifesto, the Prime Minister has outlined his views of the economy and his plans ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... Irvine will address an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce young business forum in sydney. New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Bill English is in Sydney to speak at an Australian Business Economist function on New Zealand's Road to Recovery. Victorian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... consecutive loss after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost elections in Tokyo on Sunday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Taro Aso. His election bureau chief said Monday he was set to call a snap poll next month, leading to fears of political upheaval. ...

Malaysia opens doors to foreign fundies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
Australian fund managers looking to expand in Asia could soon put Malaysia on their watchlist, following Prime Minister Najib Razak's announcement yesterday allowing foreign fund managers to be "fully liberalised" in the country. Razak, in his most ...

Superannuation wins in Cabinet reshuffle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... accident prone Joel Fitzgibbon as Minister of Defence last week was just the trigger, it took only two days for Prime Minister Rudd to announce changes so sweeping that today twenty government ministers were required at Government House to be sworn into ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... stock markets slid in cautious trading, with London dragged down by the banking sector and worries over British Prime Minister Gordon Brown battling to stay in power. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed down 33.34 points, or 0.75 per cent ...

Raise SG to 15 pc: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... retirement," he said. Altering SG contributions has certainly been a hot topic of late. Last month, former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating said lowering SG to stimulate the economy would be a disaster. "The moment you tell a political system [that ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Energy Union (CMFEU) and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), have written a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister Rudd appealing for him to abandon his plan. While not rejecting the government's fiscal argument outright about rising ...