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BT beats Vanguard on tax: Aviva

BT Financial has pipped Vanguard to take the number one spot as the most tax-effective Australian equities fund, according to new research from platform group Aviva. This is the second year that Aviva has conducted the research analysing the tax-effectiveness ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
Lower commodity prices drove the Australian sharemarket lower at midday, with the big miners losing ground. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 37 points at 6308.1, while the all ordinaries lost 35.2 points to 6311.5. On the Sydney ...

Accommodation shopping? Try the local mall

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
Many home-hunters may be better off heading for the local shopping centre. According to the latest figures property investment is back, but rather than putting a roof over our heads the money is going into shopping spaces. Analysts upbeat over the positive ...

A new way for AMP fixed interest

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
AMP Capital Investors has awarded boutique manager Vianova Asset Management a $75 million mandate for a part of the fixed interest component of its AMP Future Directions Fund. The mandate highlights how more people are looking at fixed interest again ...

Budget reply: National clearing house, halve the OS withholding tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
The real Budget presented by Treasurer Peter Costello on Tuesday night largely ignored superannuation and investment, but the make-believe Budget Reply announced by Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd last night had us front and centre. In a speech that started ...

Can the cash-fest save our competitiveness?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
Just as well the Federal Government included some infrastructure and education spending in the Budget, but considering the money wont begin to flow until 2009 our global competitiveness ranking is likely to continue to be cut-down. According to the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
The Australian share market is expected to slip back slightly today after a record run as Qantas remains in a trading halt and the market awaits the outcome of today's Federal budget. At 0811 AEST, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price ...

Good times to keep rolling for investors

Perennial Investment Partners' monthly Investors Index has found that April was an excellent month for investors in property and shares. "Global property has benefited from both a shift in institutional investor asset allocation in the developed markets ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher again today after further gains on overseas markets. At 0735 AEST, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was trading up 34 points, or 0.54 per cent, at 6280. In economic ...

Confidently counting our chickens

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
With inflation at a two-year low most economists are tipping there's next to no chance the RBA will hatch an interest rate rise this month. In fact, Foxtel's business news was headlining that RBA rates were on hold, just hours after the CPI figures ...