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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... Evangelos Venizelos has announced new budget cuts totalling around 2 billion euros ($A2.64 billion) as demanded by the European Union and the IMF in exchange for a rescue package for the debt-ridden country. LONDON - Plans for a major shake-up of Britain's ...

Smaller lenders to take brunt of Basel III reforms

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
Smaller institutions such as credit unions and building societies are likely to be hardest hit by the Basel III capital reforms, said PwC, following the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's release of a discussion paper on the subject. APRA ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... Europe, consumer and business confidence also slumped in August, the sixth consecutive monthly loss, according to a European Union poll, as the region continues to struggle with its debt crisis. The decline resulted from a "broad-based deterioration ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... shedding of 1,000 manufacturing jobs, blaming high costs due the appreciating Australian dollar and within a week celebrity union leader Paul Howes was calling for 'buy Australian' incentives. The Greens and other parts of the union movement quickly ...

IFM hits back at claims it plays politics with super fund money

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... industry superannuation funds including AustralianSuper, MTAA Super, Cbus and HESTA. Industry superannuation funds, which have union appointees on their boards, are seen as having close links to the Labor Party. IFM, whose chairman is former-ACTU political ...

Zenith secures two advice firms

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... best with the financial advisers and in-house systems at RetireCare. Additionally, Adelaide-based People's Choice Credit Union has also selected Zenith as its primary research provider. The group is a result of a recent merger between Savings & Loans ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... they would propose an EU-wide tax on financial transactions and seek to create a eurozone governing body headed by European Union council president Herman van Rompuy. The eurozone had posted meagre 0.2 per cent second quarter growth, dragged down by ...

Goodbye or good buy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
Time to say good buy or goodbye? Is this the best of times or is this the worst of times? The dreaded DD (double-dip) is back on the headlines. So is the R (recession). And with them comes Armageddon. I think Armageddon is most fitting in this case ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... "Joint Press Release Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation National Credit Union Administration Office of the Comptroller of the Currency For immediate release August 5, 2011 Agencies Issue Guidance on ...

Super funds hit back at anti-carbon tax groups

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... listed companies on the ASX and directly in hundreds of other Australian companies. The television ads state: "The European Union (EU) has had a price on carbon since 2002. During its first 6-and-a-half years, EU scheme generated $4.9 Billion in tax ...