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AustralianSuper creates Asian footprint

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
In a bid to increase its Asian asset allocation and on-the-ground expertise, AustralianSuper has appointed Stephen Joske to the newly-created role of senior manager, Asia, where he will oversee investment strategy. In this Beijing-based role, Joske ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower, following Wall Street's lead as some countries have strong doubts over whether a second massive bailout can actually save Greece. At 0815 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
The Australian dollar has recovered earlier losses after Greek political leaders agreed to provide written commitments to stick with promised austerity measures. At 1200 AEDT on Wednesday, the Australian dollar was trading at 106.87 US cents, up marginally ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... Spain last month. WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama is selling a $US3.8 trillion ($A3.57 trillion) election-year budget - a spending outline designed to cut $US4 trillion from the deficit in 10 years through spending restraints and higher taxes ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
"Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones." - The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster The optimism that warmed financial markets for the best part of the first six weeks of 2012 has been dented by the comeback of the European sovereign ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
There's a certain kind of hush all over the world overnight as financial markets turned their attention back to the Greeks and their seemingly never-ending negotiations with their benefactors - the IMF, the EU, the ECB... and private creditors. Ahhh ...

Cutting super tax breaks unwise: SPAA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... do nothing to ease the growing gap between the rich and poor," said the Senator. "Tax breaks on superannuation cost the budget $30 billion a year, as Treasury's latest Tax Expenditure Statement [released 31/1/2012] showed, with almost half of the concessions ...

Call for new generation annuities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
The Actuaries Institute has called for tax disincentives to be removed from deferred lifetime annuity products found in overseas markets, along with the development of a new generation of annuities in its pre-budget submission to the Federal Government. ...

Bold predictions of US recovery

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
The US economy is bound for recovery this year on the back of stronger fundamentals, the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum heard this week. Dr Bob Baur, chief global economist for Principal Global Investors pointed to positive indicators in ...

Stirrings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
Uh-oh, is it just me or is the fear index starting to stir once more? There must be another summit underway in Europe. There's nothing like the smell of a European summit to scare the bejeesus out of financial markets. The VIX index spiked to a high ...