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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... markets, as political leaders and bankers in the Greek debt talks remained unable to agree on how to avert an outright default by Athens, and as worries had also spread to the heavily indebted Italy. Friday's announcement that the US economy had produced ...

Retail funds want more super access

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... funds who want the current award system opened to more competition, giving their superannuation funds greater access to default-fund advantage. AMP has tried repeatedly to join an industry award through Fair Work Australia but has been rejected. In March ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... private creditors would voluntarily rollover over 70% of maturing Greek bonds into new 30-year maturities - is tantamount to default. "It is our view, that the options described in the proposal would likely amount to a default under our criteria." I ...

BT Wrap launches new tax and trading tools

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... these, we all know that's becoming increasingly important." BT Wrap will now offer "Minimum Gain" (Min Gain) as the new default sale allocation method for investment and accumulation accounts, meaning the parcel that will be sold first is the one that ...

TPD insurance review closes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... compliance process but the problem is that some funds - particularly not-for-profit super funds - have been boosting their default cover and expanding their TPD policies as part of their specific strategy to address under-insurance. Funds are concerned ...

Legalsuper calls for default funds review

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
Legalsuper is asking the Federal Government to review regulations around default funds, claiming conflicts of interest and poor performing funds are hurting the industry. According to the $1.5 billion fund, around 80% of Australians accept their employer's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... was little news other than a Standard and Poor's warning that current debt relief efforts on Greece are tantamount to a default - an outcome the eurozone is trying at all costs to avoid. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index of top shares closed up ...

Super funds returns on upwards trend

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... investment return figures, SelectingSuper's crediting rate survey for May showed the top five Workplace Super funds (by default options) over the 12 months to be Health Super with 13.1%, Catholic Super with 11.7%, WA Local Govt Super with 10.9%, VISSF ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... followed a surge of 33.4 points on Thursday as investors buoyed by apparent progress on Greece's efforts to avoid a debt default also looked to improving signs in the domestic economy. There were 36.3 million shares traded, at a value of $96 million ...

Sunny side up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... of the street." -Louis Armstrong, On the Sunny Side of the Street Whew! After the nerve-wracking "will it won't it" - default, be bailed out, pass austerity measures - shilly-shallying over Greece's immediate future, financial markets are back walking ...