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Long life derails retirement

... Don Ezra at a roundtable held in Sydney today. Worse, there's nothing you can do. "If you want your retirement income to stretch for an extra ten years, you need to squeeze an extra 2.3 per cent each year from your investments - that's too hard for the ...

High rates pose threat to direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
Fears of buffeting problems in Australia's listed property sector will spill over to its direct counterpart are unfounded because the real threat lies in increasing rates, according to Property Investment Research (PIR). The Australian direct property ...

In cash we trust

QIC has held more cash than it's ever held for a very long time, a fortuitous investment move made by the $70 billion fund manager more than twelve months before the market rout began. While it's easy to count the amount lost by the average super fund ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... benchmark NZSX-50 index ended down 1.5 per cent to 3,752.38 points, the 10th day on end it has fallen and the longest negative stretch since December 2000, when calculations for that index began.

Sub-prime currency fall-out

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
... and to lower yield expectations that were pushing too high and frightening lenders out of the market. But low US rates stretch the country differentials causing rebound effects on global currency valuations as the US dollar comes under even more selling ...

Credit crunch driving recession fears

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
The US sub-prime crisis is stretching its tentacles across the globe and is starting to reach mortgage borrowers as far afield as Australia and in the UK. Not because these countries have a sub-prime problem per se but because the US wholesale credit ...

Not made in China

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
Profits from China's export boom are driving investment and fuelling its phenomenal economic growth, but while the price is right, quality issues go far beyond a toxic toy story. Manufacturing remains China's main growth driver, attributable to its ...

A smoking gun for the RBA

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
A pre-poll rate hike could be a shot across the bow of the coalition's election campaign love-boat, however a sooner rather than later approach to monetary tightening might make less of a splash. With second quarter headline inflation surging past the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
The Australian share market is expected to fall sharply this morning after the US market took a hammering overnight in what was the worst trading day since 13 March. At 0657 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index was down ...

Super fund returns best in a decade: SelectingSuper

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
Super funds look set to deliver their best performance figures in a decade, with not-for-profit funds again stretching their lead, according to the latest SelectingSuper report. Default investment options averaged 14.9 per cent for the last financial ...