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UniSuper keen to boost after-tax returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... to the Cooper Super System Review by Gordon Mackenzie of the Australian School of Taxation and Business law at the University of New South Wales (ATAX), found that understanding the tax implications of investment decisions at the time they are made could ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... stocks their third straight day of gains on Friday. The market was still down slightly for the week. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment index rose to 74.3 in May, above analysts' estimates of 70. Concerns about higher petrol ...

London hedge fund banking on Twitter

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... dimension," said Hawtin. The fund stems from research published by Johan Bollen, a professor of informatics at Indiana University, who demonstrated how the social networking site could be used to predict market sentiment. The paper, 'Twitter mood predicts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... April, lifted by surging gasoline prices and matching expectations. The market also shrugged off a better-than-expected University of Michigan consumer sentiment report. Earnings reports from upscale retailer Nordstrom and graphics chipmaker Nvidia came ...

Budget tweak to SMSF rules

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... assets," he said. "The trustee - the company - remains the same." Cavendish Superannuation has teamed up with Adelaide University to offer a course explaining the complex area of SMSFs, which is offered in all state capitals.

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... time to sell (or buy). And this goes all the way back to the Great Depression when well-known US economist and Yale University economics professor Irving Fisher declared that, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Only ...

UniSuper chair to retire

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
University superannuation fund UniSuper is to appoint director Chris Cuffe as chairman when Elizabeth Bryan steps down from the role at the end of June. Cuffe was a former chief executive of Colonial First State Investments and Challenger Financial ...

New SMSF course on offer

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Self-managed super fund service provider Cavendish Superannuation has teamed up with the University of Adelaide to offer a three-day course next month explaining the complex area of self-managed funds. Cavendish self-managed super fund (SMSF) experts ...

Accountants attack planners over naming rights

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... said accountants and lawyers were professions that had been established a long time. "They have a good reputation and university qualifications are required," he said. De Gori said at present anybody could finish school and after minimal training hang ...

Industry still lagging on green IT

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... very low metrics score. The global benchmark is based on detailed research, conducted by Connection Research and RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia), of more than 630 CIOs and senior IT managers across industry sectors in the four countries.