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Markets are a public good: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
Australia may be a small country but it took Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2,700 word speech to the United Nations on Friday to articulate a way out of the global financial mess. The speech was in contrast to US Treasury secretray Henry Paulson's widely ...

AIST calls for higher co-contribs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... around 1.4 million Australians, or more than a tenth of all working Australians, benefited from the government's savings incentive program. That's nearly 14 per cent more people contributing over the period. Under the scheme, the Government fully or ...

Borrow from Peter to pay Paul

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
Financial markets' attention remains centred on what the US government's 'mother of all bailouts' will eventually turn out to be and more important, how much it will cost. Just as the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) predicted, equity markets ...

Finance industry groups respond to ETS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... said that the government should however not excessively shield companies either because that would simply remove the incentive for them to develop effective carbon mitigation and adaptation strategies and undermine their long term value to investors. ...

PIS calls for industry and retail ceasefire

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... commission that you receive from a majority of products and services is very similar," said Evans, continuing, "There is no incentive to use one product over another. The commission issue from a product perspective is therefore washed out."

Advisers snub commission-free ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... provide trail commissions. "Unlike managed funds, there are no trailing commissions which means there is no financial incentive for financial advisers to promote ETFs to their clients," noted CommSec. This information follows comments by Adam Seccombe ...

Solaris strikes $400m FUM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... past," said Earnshaw. Instead, he said the firm's out-performance is linked to the ownership structure of the business. "Incentive is paramount. The sense of ownership in this business drives us to excel at what we all enjoy doing - outperforming the ...

Fix contributions, then worry about fees: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
Getting super contributions up to 15 per cent and pushing retirees to income streams is more important than fixing fees and administrative efficiencies, said superannuation's political architect and former Prime Minister, Paul Keating. "You can fluff ...

Aviva matches green rebates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... efficiency and renewable energy rebates. Aviva analyst programmer, Barry Holmes, has already recieved the work place incentive by installing a grey water system in his household, which recycles waste water from laundries and bathrooms for use on the ...

Aust must avoid Europe's ETS disaster

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... were estimated to be $14 billion in the first year of trading alone, she said. The result was energy producers had no incentive to lower their emissions, which explains in part why most European countries - unlike Australia - are no where near achieving ...