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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
The Australian sharemarket is tipped to open lower following falls on Wall Street overnight. The September share price index futures contract is down 18 point at 5,585. Wall Street stocks have fallen, pulled down by major banks after the Federal Reserve ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
The Australian sharemarket is tipped to open lower ahead of the release of retail trade and international trade figures on Thursday. The September share price index futures contract is down two points at 5,647. In the US on Wednesday, Wall Street stocks ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
The share market is lower as investors practice caution ahead of the latest economic data from China. Most sectors of the market were lower, although the big mining companies were higher, despite further falls in the price of iron ore. CMC Markets sales ...

Abbott's SG claim incorrect, survey finds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... Galaxy, also found that 59% of businesses of all sizes support an SG rise. For businesses with more than 20 employees that figure jumped to 85%. Meanwhile, 55% of businesses said they would foot the bill for the rise rather than take it out of employees' ...

Who will buy NAB Asset Servicing?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
In July, National Australia Bank announced to the ASX that it was "undertaking discussions with a number of Global Custody providers" over the future of its custody business, NAB Asset Servicing (NAS). While NAB described it as a "strategic partnering" ...

Big four fail in cross-selling retail super funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... problem for improving cross-sell in this market." AMP holds 5.8% of NAB Group clients' superannuation balance, but the figure increases to 6.8% in the case of ANZ customers. ANZ is the only bank with more customers allocating their superannuation in ...

HUB24 hits $1bn milestone amid rapid growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... billion milestone. The platform's FUA were up from $384 million on June 30, 2013, to $991 million on August 28, 2014, a figure that has increased to over $1 billion in less than a week. HUB24, which was recently listed in the Australian Securities Exchange ...

"Pleasant" but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... National Accounts and you'll see that the bulk of an 8.9% drop in rural exports accounted for much of fall in the overall figure. Non-rural exports up 1.1% (ties in with the 'voluntary' stockpiling in manufacturing doesn't it?). The other side of the ...

SG freeze to hit young and low income earners hardest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
The government's decision to hold off raising the superannuation guarantee will cost young people tens of thousands of dollars in retirement savings, according to figures released by Industry Super Australia. A 25-year-old on $40,000 a year will miss ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
The share market remains relatively flat as investors wait for the Reserve Bank's decision on interest rates and the latest economic growth figures. The market spent most of the morning in marginally negative territory, before rising to be modestly ...