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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market was languishing at a 32-month low at noon as fears of slowing global growth lowered commodity prices and hammered the resources sector. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 92.7 points, or 1.9 per cent, to ...

New era in fee disclosure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
Thousands of planners are at risk of losing their industry accreditation if they haven't complied with a little known industry guideline on trail fees that took effect this year. Two years ago, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) introduced four ...

Remarried war vet widows get pension

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
Widows and widowers of war veterans who might have had their pensions stopped after they remarried are now able to access their funds again under new government rules. According to the $3 billion Military Super, the Superannuation Act 1922, the Defence ...

More Fed pump-priming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
The Australian equity market should continue its positive performance today while bond yields should pick up if Wall Street's overnight performance is anything to go by. Wall Street closed higher overnight as an unexpectedly strong US employment report ...

Super funds to pass 'approved list'

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
Senator Nick Sherry continues his campaign to "renovate the house" when he filed a government submission calling for a radical change to the way employers select their default super fund - suggesting a default fund should be chosen from an 'approved ...

SuperTrace cuts fees and jazzes website

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
SuperTrace Eligible Rollover Fund (ERF) has axed benefit payment fees and unveiled a new online search function to help customers find and consolidate lost and inactive super accounts. SuperTrace confirmed that it is eliminating all direct member fees ...

Goodbye ACMSF, hello Sunsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
The $165 million Anglican Church Master Superannuation Fund (ACMSF) closed its doors last month - prompting the transfer of all members and assets to the $13 billion Sunsuper. According to a statement on the ACMSF website, the fund's Trustee has been ...

ASIC bans Oxford Investments

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2008
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), backed by the Federal Court of Australia, banned Tasmanian based Oxford Investments Tasmania and its sole director for advising on financial products for 10 years. As a result, the firm and ...

PM's wrong and right oil strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Toyota's expected decision to start manufacturing hybrid engines in Australia will do more to address Australia's oil supply worries than Prime Minister Kevin Rudd lecturing OPEC to increase production. During the weekend it was widely reported that ...

Super funds to raise hedge fund weighting

Australian super funds are predicted to increase their investment allocation to hedge funds by $1 billion over the next two to five years with some switching from the popular fund-of-fund strategy to single strategy and multi-strategy hedge funds. The ...