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Salary sacrifice now three times more powerful

Salary sacrifice will become an even more powerful saving tool for Gen-Xers under Costello's latest Budget, allowing those 35 and under the option of saving at least three times more than in previous years. According to MLC, under existing rules, those ...

New Sydney FOHF entrant wins global award

A European fund of hedge funds (FOHF) manager that's just set up an office in Sydney has bagged the coveted Global Investor Investment Excellence Award handed out in London last month. The 105-year old award winning hedge fund group, Stenham Asset Management ...

Thou shalt inherit an empty piggy bank

It's not just the hyena laugh or the eye twitch. A new study has found that parents tend to pass their bad money habits to their children too. A survey of 1,125 Australians conducted by a company that makes money box containers, Money Ed Box, has found ...

Daily Economic Update

Australian retail sales increased by 0.4 per cent in December, more than offsetting the 0.1 per cent fall in the previous month but is lower than market expectations for a 0.5 per cent rise. Year-on-year, retail sales increased by 4 per cent - the fastest ...

Smooth, but watchful, sailing: Perpetual

With its bottom-up, fundamentals investment style, Perpetual doesn't do fortune telling. Even so, it sees no significant bumps on the horizon. That said, Emilio Gonzales, chief investment officer, noted at a briefing, "It is getting harder and harder ...

FPA appoints new chair

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has elected directors Corinna Dieters as chair-elect and Sarah Brennan as deputy chair-elect for 2006. Dieters will replace the outgoing Kathryn Greiner who completes one year as chair in November. "While we ...

Newsflash - FPA awards CFP contract to Securities Institute

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has ended months of speculation by awarding the contract for the administration of its Certified Financial Planning (CFP) program to the Securities Institute of Australia (SIA). The deal is for three years with ...

Global investment flows seen recovering after three-year slide

Global investment flows are set to recover in 2004 after a three-year slump, thanks to growth in the service industry and improved economic prospects worldwide, the UN's trade and development agency predicted on Wednesday. Foreign direct investment ...

Bank of Qld withdraws from mortgage mkt; affirms FY04 growth

Bank of Queensland said today that it would withdraw from the mortgage broker market and reaffirmed its growth forecasts for the 2004 financial year. Bank of Queensland managing director David Liddy said that the company reaffirmed its 10-12% cash EPS ...

van Eyk amends Granite Three Pillars prospectus after investor feedback

In response to feedback from the investor market, van Eyk Research has decided to amend the calculation of its Performance Fee contained within the Granite Three Pillars Ltd prospectus. Last week van Eyk announced it had joined forces with White Funds ...