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Measure super choice the right way: InvestmentLink

Super choice is alive and kicking hard, but its being driven by people taking their old fund to their new employer rather than by traditional rollovers. Latest figures from superannuation information hub specialist InvestmentLink confirm that in just ...

Local and global equities fuel returns: SelectingSuper

Superannuation and allocated pension fund members' returns have risen in the year ended January 2006 thanks to the strength of the local equities market and the rebound of international equities. According to the latest SelectingSuper performance index ...

Daily economic update

... part-time jobs rose. Full-time jobs increased by 6,200 while part-time employment increased by 19,700. The latest jobs figure takes the annual growth in employment up to 1.72 per cent from 1.65 per cent in January. While this is certainly good news for ...

Australians are starting their retirement saving too late: Citibank

... earlier. The staggering numbers are revealed in the second Citibank Retirement Index. Cause for more alarm is that the figure rises to 21 per cent of retirees aged over 65 who have still have no retirement savings. This comes on the back of Citibank ...

Exec option hedging may remove incentive

... issue of executive pay disclosure, noting that it was still complex and difficult for investors to work out the bottom line figure of what executives were really walking away with. "Investors need more information about the inputs to the valuation model ...

Weekly economic round-up

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will decide to keep interest rates steady at 5.5 per cent after its Board meets to deliberate on monetary policy tomorrow. Last week's domestic data releases has ensured this outcome and increased the probability ...

Daily Economic Update

... disappointed market expectations for a 1.5 per cent rise in January and instead posted a 1.9 per cent decline. The recent figure, coming on top of a 3.5 per cent drop in the previous month, reflects the continued pessimism surrounding the property sector ...

Daily Economic Update

Latest National Accounts figures show that the Australian economy grew by a lower-than-expected 0.5 per cent in the December quarter - boosting expectations of continued steady interest rates in the near term. This followed an upwardly revised 0.3 per ...

Daily economic update

Australia's balance of payments continued to deteriorate in the December quarter with the deficit on the current account widening by 5.7 per cent to A$14.5 billion (6.1 per cent of GDP) from a revised A$13.7 billion shortfall in the September quarter. ...

SG is a tax: Tax Inquiry

The just-announced tax inquiry may lead to the unthinkable - an attack on the 9 per cent Super Guarantee (SG). Treasurer Peter Costello has just announced a broad review of taxation in Australia so the government can get clear figures comparing our ...