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Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Cool it or we'll hose you down! That's the overriding message to the property market of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) September Financial Stability Review. While the Australian central bank also warned against rising property prices in March ...

Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Industry fund-sponsored organisation SuperFriend has today released detailed quantitative research on mental illness-related claims through group insurance, a project it has called the Super Mental Illness National Data (SuperMIND) Project. The research ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Further falls in the iron ore price and weak leads from Wall Street are weighing on the Australian share market. The local market is lower after a solid rise on Tuesday, with bargain hunting buyers and following better-than-expected Chinese manufacturing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street endured its third straight day of losses. At 0807 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 33 points at 5,373. Locally, in economic news on Wednesday ...

Link Group to buy Superpartners

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Link Group is set to buy member administrator Superpartners from its industry super fund owners, AustralianSuper, HESTA, Cbus, HOSTPLUS and MTAA Super. The five funds today announced they would enter a heads of agreement with Link Group "for the provision ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
The Australian share market has picked up as investors rebound from the sell-off on Monday and a poor start on Tuesday. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said trading at noon on Tuesday looked healthier than it did at the start of the session. ...

ASX mFund yet to attract major brokers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
More than three quarters of Australia's online retail investors could have difficulty accessing the ASX's mFund service because their existing broker does not offer access. According to figures from Investment Trends, collectively CommSec, E*Trade ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
The Australian sharemarket is tipped to open higher, with modest gains on Wall Street overnight. The December share price index futures contract is up three points at 5,404. The Dow closed at a fresh record after the US Federal Reserve stuck to a plan ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
The Australian stock market is lower as news of a slowdown in Chinese industrial production and expectations the US Federal Reserve will lift interest rates weigh on investors. Official figures released over the weekend showed industrial production ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
The Australian sharemarket is tipped to open lower following Friday falls on Wall Street. The September share price index futures contract is down 19 points at 5,519. US stocks have dropped as the West slapped new sanctions on Russia and traders saw ...