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Equities lead bull run in super savings: SelectingSuper

The latest performance figures from Rainmaker/SelectingSuper shows investors are continuing to enjoy strong returns, particularly in Australian and global equities. In the year ending February 2006, the Rainmaker/Selecting Super superannuation fund ...

Alternatives go mainstream

Alternative investments are increasingly becoming mainstream, with 86 per cent of global institutional investors revealing plans to add hedge fund managers to their current portfolios and 67 per cent planning to hire private equity managers. The figures ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open firmer as a positive lead from the US sets the tone for the domestic bourse. However, base metals were a bit weaker overnight, which could cap resource stocks. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June ...

Super fund taxes break through $5 billion

Total taxation revenue collected by all levels of government in Australia climbed to $230 billion in 2004-05, of which only $5.1 billion was paid by super funds. Super fund taxes, however, have only climbed 8.5 per cent since 200-01, which is significantly ...

Bird flu pandemic risk could strike insurers

Life insurers and their reinsurers could be significantly impacted by a bird flu pandemic. Fitch Ratings has released a report detailing the impact of any bird flu pandemic on life insurers and reinsurers, should the disease transmute and become transmitted ...

Five out of six Australians lack income protection: CommInsure

A CommInsure survey released this week found that five out of six Australians have inadequate income protection insurance in the case of illness or injury. Alarmingly, the survey also showed that if the respondents were to lose their income for three ...

Weekly economic round-up

There were again no significant economic reports released out of Australia last week but the minor ones that did see print were indicative of the moderate growth outlook for the local economy. For instance, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ...

Daily economic update

Australian manufacturing production is up in the March quarter, while new motor vehicles sales were down. The Australian Industry Group (AIG)/PriceWaterhouseCoopers(PwC) latest quarterly survey of Australian manufacturing production showed that companies ...

Daily economic update

Financial markets will be hoping to get more clues on the outlook for US monetary policy from speeches by Federal Reserve officials later today. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will deliver a speech entitled, 'Reflections on the Yield Curve and Monetary Policy,' ...

Daily Economic Update

The Empire State manufacturing index rose to 31.16 in March from 21.02 the previous month. This is much higher than market expectations for a decline to 18.9, but note that this is a volatile series. All of the components were strong particularly the ...