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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2007
The Australian share market opened strongly this morning, spurred on by a strong Wall Street lead and a healthy lift in most metal prices. The Coles takeover also is expected to be a major driver in today's trading. At 1015 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2007
The Australian share market is set to open higher this morning, fuelled by a healthy lift in most of the base metal prices and a positive day of Wall Street trading. At 0757 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index was 55 ...

Industry funds show strongest growth in assets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
Industry super funds continue to grow, driven by returns, their extra value and members making the switch, said David Whiteley, executive manager of the Industry Super Network. Whiteley said industry funds showed the strongest growth in assets for the ...

Economic round-up: Raging bull

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
As the Australian stock market finishes what has been the best financial year of the past 20, a spectacular amount of cash has been floating around looking for somewhere to set up house. Investors have done exceptionally which has seen the bull market ...

Super speeds past $1.1tr

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
Australian superannuation assets tipped over the $1.1 trillion mark in March, according to the latest figures released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). APRA's Quarterly Superannuation Performance report highlighted that superannuation ...

Credit Suisse puts twist on hedge indexing

Credit Suisse has launched a new indexed leveraged hedge fund, with a unique daily liquidity feature and exposure to multiple hedge fund strategies and managers. The Credit Suisse/Tremont Index Strategies Fund, which opened two weeks ago, provides retail ...

Aussies in ever greater debt: MLC

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... said Australia showed a full 15 per cent annual change in private sector debt. Parker said, and while he qualified that figure reporting that much of it was in growth producing assets, he admitted that, "In the last few years, in some cases, I think ...

QSuper champions fin literacy

... and salary sacrifice. But the Gen X-Gen Y campaign is just the tip of the iceberg. Peterman plans to do more research to figure out what makes QSuper members tick. The super fund also hopes to run 50 educational seminars nationally over the coming months. ...

Economic round-up: Business up, sentiment down

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2007
Despite continued buoyancy in business activity, consumer sentiment took a tumble in June as Australia's optimism towards future family finances and the economy begins to wane. The May NAB Business survey showed a continuation of elevated business activity ...

NZ managed funds hit A$56 billion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... investing than are Australian investors. Forty per cent of NZ managed fund assets are invested locally while the corresponding figure for Australia is just 25 per cent.