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Mercer expands with global chief investment role

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
Mercer continues its global expansion, creating the new role of global chief investment officer of mainstream assets to support its building $44 billion investment management business. Russell Clarke, Mercer's current chief investment officer for Asia ...

Other play factors

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
What's the final deal going to be? Will they, won't they? Sorry Virginia, not talking about the grand theatrics that is the US debt ceiling negotiations this time. Today, I refer these questions to our very own Reserve Bank of the Advance Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
The Australian share market is expected to decline after US stocks fell on a White House threat to veto legislation that would avert a US debt default. But Australian resource stocks may gain after the price of metals and oil rose. At 0826 AEST on the ...

SMSF body moves against super death tax

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
The financial services community now has the chance to comment on the recent draft tax ruling affecting self-managed super funds that some have called a death tax by stealth. Peter Burgess, technical director of the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... index futures contract was 25 points higher at 4,538 points, on a volume of 19,823 contracts. IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said an address by US President Barack Obama on the US debt-ceiling deadlock had failed to register on the local market. ...

No way USA can't repay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
Chicken Little's back! It's back telling everyone who cares to listen that "the sky is falling". Chicken Little knows. "I saw it with my eyes, I heard it with my ears, and a bit of it fell on my head" (The Sky is Falling) as it watched the Democrats ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
The Australian share market has received negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with markets falling as US policy-makers continue to search for a resolution of the country's immediate debt problem. At 0728 AEST, the local September share price ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
The Australian stock market was lower at noon, extending losses from the morning as investors fretted over worries a potential US default. At 1206 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 41.7 points, or 0.91 per cent, at 4,561.2 points, while ...

Advisers expect profits to climb 10pc despite FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
Advisers expect profits to climb by 10% in the next financial year with optimism within the industry at record high levels, despite talk of regulatory doom and gloom plaguing its future. The Macquarie Practice Consulting's 2011 Financial Planning Practices ...

Real estate may cause super tax headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
Real estate investments within superannuation would cause the biggest issue when pension-phase funds revert to accumulation on the death of the member, a self-managed super fund expert said today. David Busoli, national head of education for Cavendish ...