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Salary sacrifice on the rise: legalsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
... said Proebstl. Proebstl claimed legalsuper's member salary sacrifice contributions to 31 May 2008 were also 120 per cent above the 2005/2006 financial year. "While short-term volatility and market downturns can spook some investors, we've found that ...

Mortgage arrears hit all-time high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2008
... lend to mortgage borrowers from wholesale markets. In turn, this is why banks are now forced to increase interest rates above the Reserve Bank benchmark levels. The real question however is how many previously lowered mortgage rates below the Reserve ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... inflation and slowing growth. The Hang Seng Index closed 431.56 points lower at 22,592.30. WELLINGTON - The sharemarket hovered above levels not seen for two years, aided by Fletcher Building's slide to a three-year low. Despite earlier gains, the NZSX-50 ...

QIC appoints ex-Deutsche exec

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... companies for the broad portfolios including launching a new small companies fund in April 2003. The fund returned 25 per cent above the benchmark when Stuart handed it over upon accepting his present role. QIC is one of Australia's largest institutional ...

Self-employed lack super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... around 28 per cent of the self-employed sector has no superannuation while more than half don't even have super balances above the $40,000 mark. "A key finding is the significant gap in retirement savings of Australia's self-employed compared with wage ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... markets, in wage negotiations and now it's happening to oil prices. The speculators have moved in and pushed prices way above where they should be. Shane Oliver, chief economist and chief investment strategist at AMP Capital Investors, told ABC Radio ...

Market wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... Ranbaxy. The benchmark Nikkei average added 162.31 points to end at 14,183.48, snapping a two-day losing streak and breaking above the key 25-day moving average. HONG KONG - Shares closed 0.21 per cent lower as gains in Cathay Pacific and Chinese telecom ...

Northward banks on top stocks

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... at the National Australia Bank Group-backed Northward Capital hammered home the importance of careful stock selection for above benchmark returns. "There's a lot of discipline behind the positioning and selecting of stock in our portfolio," said Brooks. ...

QIC develops better anti-inflation strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
... negative impacts it will have on their long term savings. QIC noted that inflation is now moving into the fifth year of being above its long term trend while spiraling commodity prices will only exacerbate these pressures. In this new environment, the ...

Oil frenzy is storm before the calm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2008
... said the recent surge in oil prices has pushed world spending on oil relative to global GDP to near 8 per cent, which is above the level reached just before the global and Australian economic slump of the early 1980s.