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Qld to dominate Future Fund board of guardians

... of companies or directly invest in projects, and all fund earnings will be reinvested into the Future Fund until Prime Minister John Howard retires in 2020. Even though direct investments are precluded, the Future Fund is nonetheless expected to be very ...

Daily economic update

... rates in the region and recent French labour protests are weighing down on confidence. Japan's Upper House approved Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's last budget before he steps down as PM in September to spend around 79.7 trillion yen (US$683 billion) ...

Industry backs tax cut recommendation

... which was made to the Minister for Small Business and Tourism, Fran Bailey, has been welcomed by former Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of Tourism Australia, Tim Fischer, who said it was up to the industry to now push it through. "I am supportive ...

AMP Capital Investors looks to India and Asia

... more liberalisation, but there is still more work to do," Sehgal said. These sentiments are further supported by Prime Minister Howard's current trade tour of India and his remarks that the emerging liberalisation and affluence of India offers substantial ...

Daily economic update

... levels, in the US housing market. In Japan, the central bank seems to be preparing to press the rate hike button. Prime Minister Koizumi said the central bank should remove the zero interest rate policy as it sees fit. This reverses earlier jawboning ...

Minchin weighs in on super tax cut debate

... to cement his claim to stay in the Finance portfolio with a view to taking a tilt at the Treasurer's post should Prime Minister Howard vacate the leadership within the next few years. But politics aside, a major reason for the Minchin conversion is that ...

Martin Currie plans for Japan Alpha

... corporate sector is more 'shareholder friendly' and the long-term structural changes implemented by [the Japanese prime minister] Junichiro Koizumi are irreversible". Thomas adds that the bubble in the late 1980s, when the index peaked at over 35,000 ...

Daily Economic Update

... Japanese yen fell to a 26-month low against the US dollar despite the good news. But this was more due to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's comment putting pressure on the Bank of Japan (BoJ) not to change its quantitative easing policy so ...

Consumers getting the message on super: ANOP

... spoken to Peter Costello, but next year we will be scheduling an appointment to try to pass on the results to the Prime Minister."

AXA chief claims mandatory super increases will not boost retirement

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2005
... to be a part of the ongoing superannuation savings campaign of the Keating Labour government according to former Prime Minister Paul Keating. He claimed last month at a Melbourne financial services symposium that his government had intended to introduce ...