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ISN renews push for 12pc SG

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
The Industry Super Network (ISN) has reiterated its call for the superannuation guarantee (SG) to be lifted to 12 per cent, and is hopeful the policy will receive unanimous approval in parliament. "There is broad community agreement in favour (of 12 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. European markets were clearly higher while Wall St is flat in afternoon trade. Precious metals were mixed, and oil was down. On the ASX24 at 0637 AEDT, the December share ...

Thanks but no thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Gimme, gimme. This was the financial markets' almost universal clamour just a few weeks ago before the Fed handed down QE2. They wanted it... and so desperately. Heck, some even wanted more than the US$600 billion Big Ben handed out. But that was a ...

Schroders surges, shuns Gartmore

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
Schroders, the UK's largest listed fund manager, reported strong results overnight but ruled itself out of contention for troubled rival manager Gartmore. Schroders reported 9 month pre-tax profits of 282.7 million, up over 250 per cent on the corresponding ...

Infocus awards advisers

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
Financial planning network Infocus Money Management has acknowledged its top advisers at its annual conference and gala awards held 28 October. The awards, presented in front of delegates from Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
The Australian market has received generally positive leads from offshore trading over the weekend. Equities markets were higher in both the US and Europe, as were precious and base metals and oil. On the ASX24 at 0652 AEDT, the December share price ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from overseas, although the late announcement by the US Federal Reserve on its plan to buy $US600 billion into the US economy to stimulate recovery had a positive effect on share trading late in the offshore ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, although the late fall on Wall Street will exercise a restraining influence on trading on Tuesday. Precious metals were lower, but base metals and oil were more buoyant. ...

Future Fund adjusts long term asset allocation strategy

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
The Future Fund's annual report released last Friday shed some light on how the fund uses its voting rights and why it has made changes to its its asset allocation strategy. In its annual report, the fund disclosed that since September '09, it had been ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Whoa boy! Hold your horses! QE2 expectations are going out of hand. It started with just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller ...