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Govt move aids planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... move. "Self funded retirees have been amongst the hardest hit group in the Australian community during the global financial crisis," said Richard Gilbert, IFSA chief executive. "[Those] in account based pensions payable after July 2007 are required to ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... eh? Perhaps I am being too much of a sceptic. Perhaps the G-7 has developed a concrete plan to turn the global financial crisis around hatched behind close doors. Perhaps not. For if they did, it would have been proudly broadcast around the globe. Just ...

Biggest Loser Part 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... might also need to be downgraded. I have said many times over the past few months that the longer the global financial crisis remains unresolved, the more economies it will claim, the more pronounced the pain. And so it was...and so it shall be. Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... a $107.9 million net loss for the first half after declines in the value of its investments due to the global financial crisis. Logistics and data storage provider Brambles shed 45 cents to $5.95 by 1204 AEDT after positing a 28 per cent fall in half ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... downgraded. Then the race becomes one of a contest of 'The Biggest Loser.' Like its counterparts, the global financial crisis and the recession are putting downward pressure on Eurozone company profits as businesses faced falling demand for their products ...

Meat fund invests in high growth

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... its peers that have shown favouratism towards pure cash products in a bid to seek safe haven from the global financial crisis. The Electricity Supply Industry Superannuation (ESI Super) for instance introduced a new lower risk cash option, the ESI Super ...

Real estate under threat

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... real estate and find other ways to spend their capital," he said. LaSalle itself is a casualty of the global financial crisis. The group's December quarterly profit came in at $64 billion, approximately a 60 per cent slump from the 2007 corresponding ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
The global financial crisis has widened the performance gap between the best and worst performing default workplace super funds to 36 per cent, treble their historic difference, according to SelectingSuper data. The latest SelectingSuper super fund ...

Transcending politics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... these politicians bicker and try to gain political mileage, the more jobs and businesses and economies the global financial crisis wildfire will claim. A stitch in time saves nine. The bushfire disaster that razed entire communities in Melbourne to the ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... astute investors will not be waiting for the headlines to declare that the recession is over, that the global financial crisis has finally been beat. By then, it is too late.