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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... Dominating economic news on Tuesday will be the federal budget, to be handed down on Tuesday evening. Competing for attention, Dun and Bradstreet releases its initial business expectations survey for the September quarter. In equities news, Henderson ...

New mining tax is miners' own idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Super funds and investors upset about the mining stocks plunge this week should shift their blame from the government and instead zero in on the miners themselves because it was their idea. In a 20-page submission to the Henry Review in November 2008 ...

Mining royalties should go into SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
With the uproar surrounding the government's proposed 'mining super profits' tax, a less controversial solution may be putting mining royalties directly into an Australian sovereign wealth fund. Speaking on the ABC TV discussion program Q&A this week ...

SG jump twice as bad as mining tax slug

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
The political focus might be on the government's $9 billion super profits tax slug on miners, but employer groups say lifting SG by one third will hit them twice as hard. "The superannuation levy increase is the biggest new taxing measure in the Government ...

Green shoots for unlisted investments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Unlisted investments may be entering the first stages of their recovery following a rise in global private equity fund raisings and surge in infrastructure investment placements, research found. Preqin, a researcher specialising in alternative investment ...

Commissions by another name

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Luke Hartsuyker, opposition spokesperson for superannuation and corporate law, has labelled fee-for-service advice fees no better than commissions and said they wouldn't fix conflicts of interest. Hartsuyker made the statements while attempting to attack ...

MySuper proposal ignites storm

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
Australia's superannuation market will be closed to new entrants under proposals by the Super System Review (SSR) that could effectively shut down competition, entrench incumbents and force small funds to merge. The proposals are in the review's MySuper ...

IFSA blasts latest APRA league tables

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
IFSA has dismissed the APRA 'whole of fund' return on assets metrics as misleading, confusing and irrelevant for most members. "IFSA has rejected the APRA superannuation fund data... and its use in superannuation comparisons," they said in a statement. ...

Not-for-profits still beat retail: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
APRA has released its second round of fund level 'whole of fund' return on assets figures again showing retail super funds to have significantly underperformed their not-for-profit rivals in the five years to June 2009. The regulator's move to press ...

Risk commission debate heats up

RUTH LIEW AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
The FPA's stance that commissions on risk products should remain has revived the debate on insurance fees and prompted two other industry bodies to have their say. The Financial Planning Association yesterday called for commission payments for risk ...