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Super funds hunting grounds for criminals

Super funds are increasingly becoming the target of organised crime and white-collar fraudsters, according to Peter Morris, director of KPMG Forensic. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF), Morris said super funds are becoming ...

ALP would cut financial literacy funding: Dutton

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
... commended, with the ninemsn Money site taking out the Best Finance Site award. The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton said the award was a welcome achievement with the site only launched mid-last year. "I am pleased that the understandingmoney ...

MEB warns on reverse mortgages

... loan over time. This is repaid on the disposal of the property, which inevitably leads to less cash for beneficiaries." Peter McGuinness, chief executive of reverse mortgage provider Bluestone Equity Release, responded to the claims. "Yes, clients have ...

Putnam banks on fixed income

... for Fed rate cuts in coming months and instead believe there is a substantial risk that they'll resume tightening," said Peter Walsh, Putnam's director of retail business in Australia. "The US housing slowdown is no more severe than in past cycles; core ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... about April or May of this year whereas commercial finance has been on the improve since about that time. The Treasurer Mr Peter Costello has warned that the impact of the national drought and the peaking of commodity prices signals a slowing of domestic ...

Funds must make it easier to amalgamate small accounts: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
Treasurer Peter Costello, speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) conference this week, said the superannuation industry must work harder to make amalgamations of small accounts easier. "Kids have got a whole lot of part-time ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
When the Reserve Bank meets today to consider the economy and whether or not they should raise interest rates, some pressure against an upward move has come from the survey of the construction industry by the Master Builders Association. The index of ...

Fund managers tentative on global outlook

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2006
... disciplined long-term investment approach in the face of recent changes," said Russell chief investment officer for Asia Pacific, Peter Gunning. Gunning said the shift in sentiment was understandable, however, and linked to a range of factors and signals ...

Exec option hedging may remove incentive

... disclosed." Discussion also turned to governance issues around listed infrastructure funds, with Capital Partners principal Peter Doherty urging caution based on the fact the asset class is only relatively new and was still developing. He noted, however ...

Unemployment at lowest level since 1977

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2004
... the number of people actually in employment or looking for work - rising 0.1 percentage points to 63.7 per cent. Treasurer Peter Costello said unemployment was now at its lowest level in a generation. He said structural changes had occurred throughout ...