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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... were mixed and the euro advanced against the US dollar as eurozone finance ministers met in Brussels after last week's EU budget deal. Supermarkets were in focus on Monday as a Europe-wide food fraud scandal over horsemeat sold as beef deepened over ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... markets closed higher as investors took heart from upbeat Chinese and US economic data and EU leaders adopted a seven-year budget for the 27-member union. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies rose 0.78 per cent to 6,276.98 points in afternoon deals ...

$18 billion super tax 'honey-pot' by 2020

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... billion worth of superannuation taxes by the year 2020, said the Financial Services Council's submission to upcoming Federal Budget. In its submission released yesterday the Financial Services Council (FSC) made 12 policy submissions to the 2013-14 federal ...

Back-off super: FSC missive to Canberra

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... explained. He also said that reducing tax concessions to superannuation will not be a salve for any holes in the Federal Budget. Instead, it just moves the problem decades into the future, Brogden said. The Financial Services Council represents Australia's ...

Dignity Super's main aim, ASFA reminds politicians

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... (ASFA) yesterday said that any change to superannuation tax concessions - that the Government made in the upcoming Federal Budget - need to be measured against the core objective of superannuation: to provide dignity in retirement. The rules that cover ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... after the competition watchdog flagged it had some concerns about the airline's $35 million plan to buy a major stake in budget carrier Tiger Airways. Newscorp lost $1.09, or 3.97 per cent, to $26.41 after the global media giant said its first-half profit ...

Retirement costs on the rise again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... budgets mean that a price increase for a specified 'good' or service can impact more on the modest than the comfortable budget, or vice versa," said the report. "However, over the longer term it is not unusual for the effects of the various differences ...

Super concessions cost $32bn in 2011-12

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... associated with housing tax concessions which were valued at $31 billion in 2011-12, explaining why governments looking for budget savings will always be drawn to examining this area of government spending or foregone revenue. For example, the government's ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... data show that India has the highest inflation rate among the BRICs - 9.8% in November. Worse, it has the widest deficit - budget and current account - among its peers. Based on the "Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU)" forecast, India will end the year ...

RBF shakes up fund with two new mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... the sector fee is 15 basis points lower. We have achieved this by removing overlap between managers and focusing the fee budget where it will have the biggest performance impact - mid and small cap stocks." RBF's new fund managers are Balanced Equity ...