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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... earnings weighed on the US market and as investors waited to assess the state of the Government's finance in Thursday's Budget. The benchmark NZX-50 index closed up 1.5 points at 3,559.553 after opening flat.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... equities news, Qantas holds a media briefing on its frequent flyer program, Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson makes a post-budget address in Sydney, and the Australian Banking & Finance (AB+F) Retail Financial Services Forum 2011 begins a two-day run ...

Advisers launch FOFA attack

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Now the Budget is over financial adviser groups have come out swinging over the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms, rallying members to pressure the Government to scrap their most hated measures. The two key points adviser groups want scrapped ...

Budget tweak to SMSF rules

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Self-managed super fund trustees can relax after the Budget brought no great changes other than a $30 increase in levies and a curiously helpful legislative tweak, an industry expert said today. Self-managed fund expert Tim Miller, head of technical ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... 4,711 points, with 21,514 contracts traded. RBS Morgans director of equities Bill Chatterton said the federal government's budget delivered on Tuesday contained much for corporates, so the market had returned to focusing on the usual drivers, namely ...

Budget 2011: Advisers granted budget wish

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Financial advisers have been granted at least one wish in this year's budget. From July 1 those who breach the concessional contributions cap by up to $10,000 have been given the option to withdraw the excess funds to avoid penalty tax rates. The concession ...

Budget 2011: "Benign" Budget a relief for finance sector

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... invest in infrastructure and a reiteration of the promise to increase the super guarantee to 12 per cent were functions of a budget that commentators labeled bland. "No news is great news," Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden said ...

Budget 2011: CGT tax to restrict super trading

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... primarily shares, units in a trust and land, comes into effect immediately. "One big change highlighted in the federal budget was the treatment of shares. They will now be treated as capital items rather than trading stocks so any capital losses would ...

Budget 2011: minor investors cut short

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Investments on behalf of minors may now be cut short after the federal budget has shut down minor access to the Low Income Tax Offset (LITO). As part of the budget, minors, children under the age of 18, will no longer be able to access the LITO to reduce ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... share price index futures contract was 48 points higher at 4767, with 10,000 contracts traded. Tuesday night's federal budget was having little effect, apart from taking away some of the uncertainty leading up to it, IG Market analyst Ben Potter said. ...