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Carbon blast from the GST past

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... Australian businesses will learn to adapt, innovate, improvise and overcome. So will Australian households. So much ado for nothing I say. All this trouble for what the Treasury estimates would reduce a whopping 0.1% off the total global carbon emission ...

Cry of the banshee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... 157,000 workers found jobs in the private sector in June -- more than twice market expectations? How? Tell me how? There was nothing in cyberspace or blogosphere mentioning even one 'expert' remotely warning that the US Non-farm Payrolls report for June ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... Private managing director George Savvides addresses a chamber luncheon in Melbourne on "Health Reform From Within - Doing nothing is not an option". CSR Ltd holds its annual general meeting. On Wednesday, the Australian stock market clawed its way back ...

Minister faces down advisers over opt-in, risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... money into the superannuation savings pool it had an obligation to protect it from excessive fees and charges. "It takes nothing away from your skill as an adviser," he said. "But let me be clear that because we have mandated the flow of cash I don't ...

Alt assets fund deals with adviser concerns

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... plagued with issues with liquidity and transparency. "They don't know what they are getting themselves in for... there is nothing available in the marketplace," said Farrell. "This is where we came up with making the right choices but also bringing something ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... told us this. It raised its unemployment forecast for this year and lowered its economic growth projections. There's also nothing new in the US housing sector - it's still depressed. In fact, the 2.1 per cent fall in new home sales in May were just as ...

Labor moves to justify super existence

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... described Labor policy on superannuation as "absolutely abhorrent" and suggested it would cause higher unemployment and do nothing to provide genuine retirement income. "I remind the House today of these 1992 statements to simply remind all of us how ...

Coalition adopts ALP super clearing house model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... house from 2008 when then superannuation minister Senator Nick Sherry first proposed the policy, the Coalition's policy is nothing new. The clearing house is already operational after opening in July last year. A statement issued by the government last ...

AMP targets lost super to attract members

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... Australians don't know where to start when it comes to consolidating their super so instead they will often choose to do nothing," said Jansen. "AMP developed this service with that in mind. It helps make the whole process easier and customers know that ...

It's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... cent return on GS' forecast - and we're not counting dividends yet. Try and get that by investing in cash. In Europe, nothing beats printing the prospect of a Greek default in the headlines. The reasoning being that if Greek defaults, Ireland and Portugal ...