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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... Thursday closed down 3.47 per cent, or 758.72 points, to end at 21,108.22. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket hovered above recent two-year lows on Thursday, but its 1.2 per cent decline was not as steep as losses in Australia and elsewhere. The ...

ING PEAL cashes in on private equity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
ING Private Equity Access Limited (ING PEAL) has sold its entire or part investment at or above the valuation price in a number of companies across three of its underlying funds. Established in 2004, ING PEAL developed a listed multi manager private ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... that's the historic story of the day. The S&P comments were also positive for the market," she said. US gold futures surged above the $US1,000 level yesterday as record low dollar and inflation fears due to crude oil rising to all-time highs encouraged ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... front-month RBOB hit a record $US2.7435 on Wednesday. LONDON METALS EXCHANGE Tin extended recent gains to hit a record high above $US20,000 per tonne on Thursday and copper was steady but seen vulnerable to a sell-off as investors focused on the possibility ...

Consumer confidence plummets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
... Australian dollar falls as the high dollar has been insulating consumers from record oil prices which now seem stuck well above US$100 a barrel. The report by Sensis also found that what Australians worry about can change rapidly as while economic issues ...

ANZ sets the scene for capital raising

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... particularly following this week's rise in official interest rates, is that wholesale funding costs are continuing well above official increases. ANZ, for example, is now paying more than 50 basis points extra for wholesale funding compared to a year ...

Long life derails retirement

... there will be a raft of new products that will try and help investors who can't save enough and are playing catch up to live above the bread line come retirement. And if that doesn't help, unfortunately people may have to look at the family home, using ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... five per cent each. Shares in Allco continued to slide, losing more than 20 per cent to 50 cents each. They were trading above $13.00 in February last year. Another big casualty today was the Packer family-backed Challenger Financial Services Group Ltd ...

Australia dubbed the educational hub

... to today's wealth professionals. "In an age where there are many ways to achieve a piece of paper you can frame and put above your desk, it is the journey and practical outcomes that are important in equipping individuals to build their futures." For ...

Good wine, good advice

... heard of Transition to Retirement and I thought, oh, what a pity," she said, explaining that a person from their 50s and above, who adopts TTR strategies can save tens of thousands of dollars versus someone who doesn't. To illustrate, Leslie said that ...