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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open flat to low on Thursday after US stocks finished in negative territory and commodity prices dropped overnight. At 0710 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was three ...

Conservative strategies pay for ITC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
Forestry group ITC banks on its prudent business model to ride the crisis facing the agribusiness sector after Timbercorp and Great Southern went into administration. Adam Redman, spokesperson at ITC, said the firm's key business is forestry, a key ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was higher at noon, boosted by a positive lead from United States markets, better-than-expected jobs figures and a well-received quarterly profit result from Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate, News Corp. Official data showed ...

Risk of indigestion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
Whoa boy! Take it easy. How many times have we been admonished by our elders to chew our food slowly right in the middle of chomping down a big chunk of that juicy, tender, savoury steak? Not once, not twice but many, many times. Because it is the me ...

Options for retiring SMSF trustees

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
A growing number of self managed super funds (SMSFs) could soon convert into Small APRA Funds (SAFs) in tandem with longevity issues facing SMSF trustees. Michael Hutton, head of wealth management at accountants and advisers HLB Mann Judd Sydney, says ...

Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
Australians really are a spoiled bunch. Give them bread and they ask for cake. Give them cake and they question why not the bakery instead. And while you're at it, throw in a coffee factory - nay, the whole plantation - but be careful not to spend too ...

HNW shell shocked about nest eggs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
A Fujitsu survey found high net wealth Australians are seven times more concerned now about their retirement savings than they were a few months ago as equity markets continue to crack their nest eggs. Martin North, Fujitsu managing director of consulting ...

Aussies fear online fin services

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... In the long term this will provide online financial services with a slow but steady boost as younger generations supplant elder ones as the banks' core customers," said Ingemarsson.

Bookmakers Super adds conservative option

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
The Bookmakers Superannuation Fund (BSF) has signed investment and superannuation advisory firm Joseph Palmer & Sons to offer a new conservative investment option, in response to this year's share market volatility. According to Malcolm Palmer, managing ...

Money for Living practice is not RM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
The Senior Australian Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) is distancing itself from Money for Living, stating the business was not involved in promoting and selling reverse mortgages. On Monday, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...