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Selection the key as mining stocks surge

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Australia's four biggest mining companies generated close to half of the total profits of the ASX's top 50 companies in 2010 but fund managers are highlighting the need to be extremely selective with investments. According to a study by accounting firm ...

Accounting group hires 'transformer'

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... extra if he meets performance objectives. His salary will rise to $1.4 million if he outperforms and achieves an agreed "stretch" performance target. Long-term incentives not to be paid until 2014 include an issuance of 1 million shares in the company ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... 1999 Thursday, rising 6.4 per cent in the first three months. The index of 30 large companies gained 742 points in that stretch. Measured against other first quarters, that's the largest point gain since 1998 and the second best on record. Stocks ended ...

The day the earth moved

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... Honda is suspending four of five, Toyota shut down two of its subsidiaries and so are Sony and Toshiba. It wouldn't be a stretch to imagine that operations in other businesses will be disrupted over the next few months. So where would demand for more ...

ACFS names award finalists

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
Aviva Investors, Australian Ethical Investment and Colonial First State are among the fund managers in the running for this year's MFSS 2011 Investment Stewardship Award. The award, hosted by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) and sponsored ...

Perpetual sees 8pc upside for ASX200

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
Perpetual sees the potential for an 8 per cent upside in the ASX200 next year. That might seem modest, but it would be above average, according to data stretching back more than a century. According to Perpetual, the average price return of the Australian ...

New website for women and super

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
First State Super has created a website that seeks to empower and inform women about their super. The aim of the website is to narrow the gender gap when it comes to superannuation savings, following numerous research that shows Australian women have ...

Planes, trains & automobiles and the bush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... circle the world six times; that's a lot of road. We're going to lay and maintain 4,000 miles of our railways - enough to stretch coast-to-coast. We're going to restore 150 miles of runways and advance a next-generation air-traffic control system to ...

Nightmare on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
Yep, the scare is on! Expect nothing less - it's Friday the 13th anyway. Jason and Freddie Kruger are out to induce a nightmare on Wall Street. But wait, it wasn't Jason, nor was it Freddie - it was the US initial "weekly" unemployment insurance claims ...

Mercer stress tests retirement

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... presenting results in today's dollars. "For example, most people don't realise that delaying retirement by just one year can stretch their super two years further in retirement. Mercer's Retirement Income simulator shows people in very clear terms what ...