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Super fund drives member awareness

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... superannuation fund TWUSUPER. The industry super fund is putting advertisements on more than 80 billboards around the country to catch drivers' attention as they go past. Bill McMillin, chief executive of the driver's fund, said members were working ...

New index tracks second-tier emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... markets Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. The CIVETS 60 index comprises of ten stocks from each country. Each company must have a market capitalisation of more than US$500 million to be included. The index is balanced semi-annually ...

Super funds fail on carbon disclosure

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), which has over $300 billion under advice, including many of the country's largest industry funds, Local Government Super and industry super fund MTAA. During the Woodside AGM, 27,325,549 shares were ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... 2,869.88, the highest close since December 2000, when it was plummeting as the dot-com bubble famously burst, plunging the country into recession. Riding news that the Fed would not raise ultra-low interest rates, the Dow Jones Industrial Average also ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... had lowered its long-term outlook for United States' sovereign debt to "Negative" from "Stable", due to risks from the country's deficit. "People are trying to come up with a judgement on what are the chances that the US credit rating is downgraded," ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... same old worries over Europe but last night... last night it was all about the biggest economy in the world - Uncle Sam's country, America! Standard & Poor's "downgraded" its outlook for US sovereign debt to negative from stable "Because the US has ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... the ability of battling Republicans and Democrats to agree a credible plan on cutting the fiscal deficit, S&P gave the country until 2013 to act or face losing its coveted rating. US bond prices fell sharply after the S&P news, sending yields, the cost ...

Experts bullish on US despite debt gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... Economists such as Harvard professor Martin Feldstein have predicted nothing but gloom ahead for the troubled North American country, which must seek approval from congress to increase the $14.29 trillion debt ceiling by May. US Treasury Secretary Timothy ...

China surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... the PIGIS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain). The trigger? Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told his country's Die Welt newspaper that Greece might need to renegotiate its debt if an audit, to be held in June, reveals that it cannot ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... 14.16, or 0.1 per cent, to 12,285.15. The Nasdaq composite lost 1.30, or 0.1 per cent, to 2,760.22. Bank of America, the country's biggest bank and one of largest mortgage underwriters, reports earnings Friday morning. Stock indices were lower for most ...