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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... The New Zealand share market started the day well, on the back of encouraging news out of debt-stricken Europe, and held enough of its gains for the benchmark NZX-50 index to finish 11 points higher, in line with a 120 point lift on Monday. Though the ...

FOFA: Government extends soft-dollar benefit ban to non-super risk insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... Financial strategist Justin Hooper of Sentinel Wealth, a non-aligned financial advisory firm, said it could not go far enough. "There should be nothing that influences an advisor at all," he said. Hooper said a banking and investment firm had sent him ...

Moody's does an S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... rates globally." And four, Moody's concern over "several factors" that could prevent the Japanese economy from growing fast enough to reduce its budget deficit is not consistent with recent economic statistics showing that Japan has already started to ...

Time-based and opt-in preferred: MSI survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... product providers received mixed reviews with 56% finding the limit a "good thing" while 12% believed the limit was not low enough.

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... rogue single data points - outliers we call them - that will be reversed next month. Still, if financial markets ask hard enough, they might just get the double-dip they ask for. I guess it's now up to Big Ben to come up with another plan - a plan to ...

Development, not cash, job market motivator

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
Cash incentives are not enough in today's financial industry workplace, with long term career development now the top spot on finance candidates wish lists. The allure of long-term career development was found to be the most attractive asset a finance ...

Nothing happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
There's some peace and quiet around financial markets overnight. There was no news convincing enough to direct investor traffic one way or another. But the blogomentaries on Wall Street this morning has got my goose. You don't have to go pass Bloomberg's ...

Super keeping economy strong: ASFA

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... the Government's proposal to increase the SG from nine to 12 per cent. "We already know the current level of SG is not enough to support Australians' expected retirement lifestyles," said Vamos, "and ASFA has been advocating strongly for an increase ...

In defence of superannuation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... old this week so a lot of people, even with the amounts going up from 3 to 9 per cent compulsory savings still don't have enough in their retirement incomes to allow much more than a bit of super and the aged pension. "And the Gillard Government wants ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... want to get caught with the hot potato on our laps. Another one scream "buy" and, lo and behold, everyone couldn't get enough of what everybody else is having. We've witnessed this madness of the mob just last week - some of us were even partakers - ...