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The $200 super gift

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
Australians can bump up their Christmas budget by cashing in their unclaimed super account balances, as long as the total amount is less than $200. Matt McCrory, AUSfund manager, said Australia has more than 5.5 million unclaimed super accounts valued ...

K2 floats on $20 million

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... Management's delayed initial public offering (IPO) has closed oversubscribed, giving the company a $20.48 million early Christmas present. K2 sold the nine per cent slice at $1.05 per share, giving the company a $228.6 million market cap from sales of ...

Toy story

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... phenomenal economic growth, but China's toxic toy story has taken on a new development that will likely impact its lucrative Christmas export trade. Manufacturing remains China's main growth driver, attributable to its spectacularly successful exploitation ...

Pass the paracetamol

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... about to get a lot worse for mortgage holders", and there is still a good chance of more interest rate headaches over Christmas. The Reserve Bank of Australia in its continued focus on inflation announced this morning an increase in the cash rate by ...

Deck the halls with interest rate hikes

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
... that has the market not just certain Cup Day will win us a rate hike but there will likely be another one under the Christmas tree. Yesterday's retail trade data and consumer goods imports in the monthly trade balance statistics showed consumer demand ...

RaboPlus cuts entry fee to 25bp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
RaboPlus, one of the younger entrants to the local managed fund market, is to give investors an early Christmas bonus when it reduced its entry fee by 50 basis points to 0.25 per cent until the end of the year. The fee reduction applies to all funds ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
... Billiton helping the bourse to new records. Some analysts now say the local market could reach the 7000-point level by Christmas. The record closes broke the previous record set on Friday. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 96.2 points or 1.47 ...

IMAP to launch MA accreditation course

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
... accounts. Adam Dawes, head of portfolio and financial services at Shaw Stockbroking, said, "If we complete course before Christmas, it can start to be implemented by the time industry bodies start up again in February." Hot topics of discussion revolved ...

St.George and HESTA champion flexible workplace

... Anne-Marie Corboy. Among HESTA's workplace practices include 14-weeks paid maternity leave, 1 week paid paternity leave, a Christmas to New Year shut down and flexible work arrangements for parents and carers. "Realistic work and family balance is very ...

Economic round-up: Currency and commodities

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2007
... its loftiest level since hitting US86.46Ac in February 1989, some analysts believe it could take a stab at US90Ac by Christmas. The New Zealand dollar, also widely considered a commodities-based currency, hit a 22 year record of US77.6Ac, achieving its ...