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CHOICE, ISN hit back at associations aspersions

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... is part of a cleverly contrived plan to concentrate the control of Australian's superannuation money in the hands of the union-controlled industry super funds for the benefit of the Labor Party," he said. Yet Mack asks how disclosing a bill to a client ...

Sounds like a plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... like a plan. The bad news - the problem has been kicked down the road to this coming weekend (23 October) at the European Union summit in Brussels. The weekend that, according to UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, "is the moment people are ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... expected by most analysts. Eurozone leaders were celebrating Slovakia's delayed ratification of new powers to the currency union's EFSF bailout fund, but there was no respite from the crisis, with Spain's credit rating downgrade underlining the threat ...

Manufactured in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... diamond ring (bank recapitalisation?). Papa may do so after the G20 meeting this weekend or after the 23 October European Union Summit or after the 3-4 November G20 Cannes Summit. "... and if that diamond ring turns brass..." But it wasn't all about ...

Statewide and Local enter merger due diligence

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... fund was approved by shareholders including Business SA, SA Unions, the Local Government Association, Australian Services Union and the Australian Workers Union. PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG and Russell Investments will assist the process. Appointed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), a tool created last year after debt-riddled Greece took a bailout from the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said that ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... said it was too late to scrap contingency plans it had put in place for expected work stoppages. The Transport Workers' Union (TWU) late on Thursday called off its action planned for Friday. Qantas had cancelled 17 flights and delayed another 29, with ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said the EU executive was seeking "co-ordinated action" in all 27 European Union nations to recapitalise banks. The debt crisis is now seen as threatening the banks exposed to distressed sovereign debt ...

Rewarding wishful thinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... on." "Shared view" my butt. Is CNBC making up stories then when it reported that, "Finance ministers from the 27 European Union countries spent several hours discussing what to do about their banks at a get-together in Luxembourg Tuesday without reaching ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... spreading. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's comment on recapitalising the banks seemed to confirm reports the European Union was working on such a plan to tame a crisis which claimed its first victim, Dexia bank, this week. The news cheered markets ...