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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... forces tugging at the economy. Freddie Mac, which substantially increased its reserves for souring loans, lost about three times Wall Street's expectations on a per-share basis. The company also announced that it expects to cut its third-quarter dividend ...

AXA Aus funds fall 11 pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... customers manage through these cycles. If everything only ever went up, people would not need us. "What is important in times like these is to stay focused on the long term. This is what we advise our customers to do and this is what we are doing."

Till losses do us part

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... year. Suppose the same fund member switched out of balanced growth and into the better performing conservative option seven times in the past 20 years - seven times being the number of times conservative fared better than balanced growth - what would ...

Super SA gives thumbs up to SyncSoft

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
... greater flexibility in payment methods and timing. "We are already seeing the benefits of Capital in the reduced processing times and user-friendly member maintenance screens," said Super SA general manager, John O'Flaherty. Super SA has more than 170,000 ...

Aust must avoid Europe's ETS disaster

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... at the Sydney Institute, said, "the European emissions trading scheme [ETS] was the biggest carve out in wealth in modern times in the name of the environment". Williams said Australia must learn as many lessons as it can from what Europe did wrong. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... price index futures contract decreased 62 points to 4939 on volume of 10,433 contracts. "Our up move yesterday was three times what the Dow went up," Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said. "That didn't make sense, but there was some very astute ...

Trouble at Threadneedle Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... of an economic recession and kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 5 per cent. The BOE has cut interest rates three times after peaking at 5.75 percent in December 2007 but rising inflation has shifted its stance towards tighter policy settings. ...

Back testing not enough

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... need to understand the nature of the assets they are investing in. This includes how they are likely to perform in good times, bad times and all others in between. "Local listed property trusts are a classic case of this. "Over time, the sector has become ...

Swedish pension lessons for Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... volatile however as while in 2007 Swedish pension investors earned only 4.6 per cent, Australian investors earned three-times that at almost 15 per cent. Scale in the investment operations of the Swedish pension system are also achieved through the scheme ...

FIRST Super names chief exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... Russell was chief financial officer at STA Travel and also held commercial and business development roles at the Melbourne Times and Monash University. Russell said his immediate focus is to ensure the recent merger complies with government regulations ...