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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... business. Shares in Ramsay Health Care gained $2.85, or 6.4 per cent, to $47.41, after the country's largest private hospital operator reported a 14 per cent rise in net profit. However, the market's heavyweight mining sector spoilt the party. BHP Billiton ...

Mercer wins Mercy Super admin gig

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... provide member administration services. Mercy Super - which is the super fund primarily for employees of Brisbane's Mater Hospital and other Mercy Partners employees - has 12,000 members and funds under management of $900 million, making it Mercer's ...

Lift aged pension to 70: Productivity Commission

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
... area would reduce fiscal pressures significantly," the report said. Illustrating the point, the PC report revealed that hospital costs per annum per person for someone older than 85 years are six time that for the average 50 year old. Showing the timidity ...

Infrastructure key in battle against SMSF exodus

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
Industry super funds can get an advantage over self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) by using their scale to exploit the "illiquidity premium" that exists in unlisted markets such as infrastructure, according to Brett Himbury, chief executive of ...

NSW govt to reconsider Pillar privatisation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... Avoiding these costs would allow the Government to focus on putting its limited funds into critical road, school and hospital projects across NSW," Baird said. Baird was eager to stress that a sale would not affect current clients - the biggest of which ...

Trophy infrastructure assets too expensive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
Large, marquee infrastructure assets seem over-priced in the face of the huge sums high profile institutions have paid in recent years, according to Towers Watson senior investment consultant Duncan Hale. Large global investors have raced to buy infrastructure ...

Super fund sells hospital to government

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
MTAA Super has sold its stake in Mildura Base Hospital (MBH) to the Victorian Government after 13 years of investment in the project. Since 2000, MDH has been under a public private partnership (PPP) arrangement, comprising the Victorian Government ...

Medical charges put pressure on retiree living costs

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
Significant price rises for medical and hospital services have led to a modest increase in the cost of living for retirees according to the latest Australian Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Retirement Standard figures. The figured for the June ...

The tale of two PMIs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013

A prince, a princess or a frog?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... And we know what headlines and spinmeisters are like Virginia, don't we now my lovely? Those camped outside St Mary's Hospital in Paddington in central London are more fortunate. The spinmeisters won't be able to spin the outcome of the 'Great Kate Wait'. ...