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Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite falls on Wall Street after data showed that the US economy contracted in the fourth quarter last year. At 0630 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up seven points ...

Government gives tax certainty for deceased estates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
The Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, today released a draft regulation of Government measures to provide tax certainty to the beneficiaries of deceased estates. Investment earnings derived by superannuation funds from ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowering its world growth forecast anew - down to 3.5% from 3.6% it predicted in October -- like most guesses, it could be correct or it could be not. And it's not that it hadn't made any forecasting errors before. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
The Australian market is flat in early trade despite strong earnings results in the US leading to overnight gains on Wall Street. At 1021 AEDT on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 3.8 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 4,784 and the broader ...

Repressed rally

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
We're almost there, close to finishing the first month of 2013...and it's been so far, so good. Wall Street has climbed to its highest level in seven years and most recent macro indicators, as well as US company profit reports, have been positive and ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
Going for the ceiling. Sorry folks, this time it's not about the US debt ceiling. It's about Wall Street making another run for the all-time high it reached back before the GFC stood for the Geelong Football Club and not the Global Financial Crisis. ...

Business as usual at Mercer

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
In the wake of several high-profile redundancies across the global organisation, Mercer has said that it is business as usual for its Australian asset-consulting arm. It was revealed at the end of last year that Mercer was abandoning a three-year-old ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
There were failed forecasts a-plenty in 2012. And when it comes to predictions, nothing can compare with the much-hyped end of the world apocalyptic prophets say was coming on 21-12-2012 based on their interpretation of the Mayan calendar. Guess what? ...

Pension funds reckless on climate risk: Hewson

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
A survey of the world's biggest pension funds and insurance companies has uncovered a reckless mismanagement of climate change risk, said a prominent economist. Yesterday the not-for-profit group the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AOPD) released what ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
Australian stocks have opened firmer, with the major miners leading the broader market on track to close at a fresh high for calendar 2012. At 1030 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 12.5 points, or 0.27 per cent, at 4,570.4 points ...