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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... points. Mr Wright said the panel had essentially redefined what constituted a recession. "At the end of the day you can debate the semantics of it but the traditional metric for defining a recession has not been achieved [two consecutive quarters of ...

No more short-selling: IML

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... short selling - full stop'. This follows the lifting of the interim ban on shorting non-financial stocks and the ongoing debate on 'naked' versus 'covered' short selling. Tagliaferro argued that the stock exchange's primary role is to ensure the allocation ...

Trustees should adopt system-wide policies: Sherry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... million adults including 6.4 million accounts in 'lost super'. "For the last 20 years, we've been preoccupied with the debate on contributions and adequacy and that's legitimate. But in my view, we have not been focused enough on efficiencies in the ...

Mass modular advice to boost savings

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... Coates is well versed on the issue as the former financial services policy officer of consumer body CHOICE. "This is not a debate about complete advice versus simple advice but rather about people getting no advice versus giving them simple advice," ...

HNW shell shocked about nest eggs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... products or products that deal with a potential falling stock market or falling returns," he said. "There is also a public debate factor here in so far as some of the issues that we're finding is clearly going to require policy change." Fujitsu provides ...

Retail fund fights back

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
The value of financial advice must be considered when comparing performance, an issue often overlooked in the debate about retail versus industry funds, said Colonial First State head of strategy, Nicolette Rubinsztein. The industry debate on the differences ...

No more parachute payments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
The debate on chief executive pay heats up after the discovery that senior executives in many of the banks the government had to bail out were in line for fat parachute payments just as they were negotiating a rescue package for the company. Dexia's ...

Wickham wins actuary of the year

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... the award in recognition of Wickam's dedication and contribution to his profession, particularly to the development of debate and ideas in superannuation and retirement incomes. "Darren has been a consistent contributor to the profession over many years. ...

AIG not impacted by bail-out failure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... Page, Rainmaker managing director who is currently in Wall Street. Expectations surrounding the vice presidential televised debate on Friday, political posturing on both sides of the house and Congress being almost in "caretaker" mode in preparation ...

AFA pilot course a success

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... seen the content before so we wanted their professional input and 11 was a good number because it gave us some really good debate and discussion," he said. "There's a couple of topic areas where we want to go a little more into detail on case studies ...