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Super savings close in on hitting $800 billion: APRA

Amid fears of a country-wide superannuation savings shortfall, the latest APRA survey shows that the money keeps rolling in, with total superannuation assets now closing in on the $800 billion mark. During the period, total superannuation assets rose ...

Daily economic update

... euro increase the risk that Eurozone growth momentum would again falter. The run of good news continues in Japan with the country's index of leading indicators rising above 50 per cent in November for the second consecutive month. The Cabinet Office ...

Daily Economic Update

... still close to a post-World War II record of 12 per cent reached in March this year. Furthermore, job cuts at some of the country's largest companies could see the current jobless rate of 11.5 per cent rise further and are driving German households to ...

Mac Media broaden debt with Taiwanese broadband buy

... reported as saying the purchase is a strategic acquisition which places MMG well for further cable TV involvement in the country. "TBC displays many of the operating and financial characteristics that attracted MMG to regional radio in Australia. TBC ...

Spark electrifies market at $1.8b

... institutions," said Bob Stobbe, Spark's CEO. The newly listed company will own a 49 per cent interest in three of the country's largest electricity distribution businesses namely Powercor in Victoria, CitiPower in Melbourne's CBD and inner suburbs, and ...

Managers chase offshore bonds

... latest research from van Eyk. Suzanne Tavill, van Eyk's head of research and ratings, said the high quality nature of the country's domestic credit market has constrained the buying opportunities locally. "Traditional income managers have had to look ...

Tis the season to be jolly and to spend: AXA

... the world - the preliminary findings revealed that high petrol prices and interest rate rise fears have not swayed the country from giving generously. On the contrary, it revealed that Australians are more generous than their counterparts in the UK ...

Overseas investing to reach 40 per cent: ING

... Australians are spoilt for choice when it comes to investing overseas, be it through specialist global equities, single country exposures, diversified fixed income, emerging markets equity and debt and global listed property. "We believe the advent of ...

Zurich to launch Life Risk Factory

... still the same as we did ten years ago," he says. Perhaps it is the industry's Luddite-like traits that compounded the country's massive underinsurance. According to IFSA's research, 60 per cent of individuals with dependent children, or almost all of ...

Daily Economic Update

... trillion yen (US$11.4 billion) in the year to October. Higher overseas investment income and increased demand for the country's exports of autos and steel contributed to the wider surplus. The current account report showed that income from dividends ...