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Efficiency and social equity best way to fix super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... "While the evidence shows there is a case for increasing SGC to 12 per cent, it is recognised that the global financial crisis puts the brakes on such an increase and that consensus is yet to be reached across the board on how the increase would be paid ...

Chinese medicine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... become even more attractive? Next week? Next month? Next year? For despite last night's optimism, the global financial crisis' epicenter continues to be battered. Automatic Data Processing's (ADP) survey of US private employment showed another 697,000 ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... semi-annual testimony only two weeks before remarked that the country is well-positioned to survive the global financial crisis and stressed that the RBA and the Government are prepared to do more if necessary. Yesterday's RBA action - or inaction - ...

Boomers to postpone retirement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... generation in the UK, France, Germany, the US and Australia expect to postpone their retirement because of the global financial crisis, according to a new study. The TNS Financial Crisis Study found 44 per cent of respondents said they would have to ...

GFC in a fortnight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
The events of the past two weeks provided a microcosm of the on-going global financial crisis. The past 14 days capture the drama cum horror story that is being played out all around the world over the course of nearly two years. Fresh US data released ...

Baracking for the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... to see this happen. But how? Perhaps we are being unfair. After all, the scale and scope of the current global financial crisis is such that while the trillions of dollars already spent in bail-out packages and similar stimulus programs are already starting ...

Custodians to play bigger role on risk mgmt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... Securities Services, said that 'risk management' is certainly front of mind for many of their clients after the global financial crisis. "My observation is that the current environment is leading clients to ask a different set of questions. Our opportunity ...

China could own America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... packages, outright purchases of toxic assets, record low interest rates, there is still no light at the end of global financial crisis tunnel. Economies are still sinking. Perhaps it is now time for the American taxpayers to take control - and pay the ...

State Super focuses on risk

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... fine-tuning its trustee board's risk detection and management skills to help steer the fund through the global financial crisis. Don Russell, chairman of State Super, said he is looking to boost the involvement of the board trustees to focus on detecting ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... economic and financial systems have not convinced equity markets that the 'beginning of the end' of the global financial crisis is nigh. US President Barack Obama declared these words right after he signed the US$787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment ...