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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2006
The number of jobs created last month rose by 23,400 in seasonally adjusted terms to take the national number of people employed to 10.2655 million. Better news was that most of the employment gain was in full-time jobs which increased by 22,600 to ...

RetireInvest to focus on aged care

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
RetireInvest is deepening its presence in the aged care advice space, forming alliances to offer financial advice to prospective aged care residents. An alliance with Mackenzie Aged Care Group will see their potential residents being offered financial ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has decided not to lift interest rates following its monthly board meeting yesterday. This comes as some relief to the market and mortgagees after last month's 0.25 per cent increase to 6 per cent, the second since ...

More super incentives from the Treasurer

Four months after the Federal Government announced sweeping changes to the country's superannuation system, the Treasurer Peter Costello is back in the limelight offering even more incentives for people to boost their super savings. Yes, both the reasonable ...

State Super hands mandates to Fidelity and Alliance Bernstein

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
State Super Financial Services Australia (State Super) has awarded Australian equities mandates to Fidelity for $150 million and to Alliance Bernstein for $300 million. State Super general manager investment and chief investment officer, Oscar Fabian ...

Bravura partners with Statewide for super development

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
Bravura Solutions has announced a foundation partnership with Statewide Financial Management Services, the super administration arm of industry fund Statewide Super, to develop the next generation of the Sonata SuperB superannuation administration platform. ...

Macq talks up its quiet achiever in geared property

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
Macquarie is trumpeting the virtues of one of its lesser known but high performing geared property funds this week, citing outperformance of 7.1 per cent and a focus on high levels of income as reasons to take a second look at the fund after three years ...

SERF awards MLIM $85m portable alpha mandate

The $1.5 billion Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund (SERF) has awarded Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) an $85 million institutional mandate to invest in a portable alpha strategy with a twist. Under the mandate, MLIM's US based portable ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open stronger today following a firm lead from Wall Street on better than expected US jobs numbers on Friday. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contact was up 36 points at 5,109 ...

NZ Super Fund scores big but cautions on the future

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has posted better than expected returns for the third year in a row but has cautioned that its current level of performance will not be sustainable over the long term. The NZ fund, the equivalent to Australia's Future ...