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DiNapoli slams raid rumours

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... members" who rely on the fund for their financial security. "The fund is strong. I recently reported that SFY 2009-10 was the third best investment year in the past 20 years. "The State Comptroller's office has a long history of protecting the fund from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... payment totalling about $US2.6 billion that was scheduled for June 21. It also won't declare a dividend for the second and third quarters. Investors saw the news as an end to the uncertainty about BP's stability, and that helped steady the overall market. ...

Super savings run out well before retirement: survey

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... projected life expectancy at retirement for a 55-59 year old single male is 17 years but their savings will run out just one-third the way through. For single women in this age range, the situation is even more dire with median projected savings supporting ...

SG lift costs super $700bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... abolishing contribution taxes and halving fund earnings taxes would conservatively add $7 billion per year - more than the one-third increase in SG. "Increasing SG always sounds an attractive policy offer but the reality is that adjusting the superannuation ...

Korea's big four dominate pensions

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
... affiliated to large service providers. The report shows Mirae Asset Investments at the top of this list, with around one-third of assets, followed by Samsung Investments with 13 per cent of assets. Korea's corporate pension schemes are not based on trust ...

AXA and Wealth.net split poses planner risk

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
National Australia Bank stands to lose one of the most popular platforms among advisers if the bank decides to offload the North Wealth.net platform as part of its potential AXA buy. Advisers who use the Wealth.net platform have the highest level of ...

Hastings consortium buys $290m stake in US infra

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... with strong and capable local partners," said Richard Hoskins, head of unlisted infrastructure at Hastings. FLNG is the third acquisition by Hastings and Zachry through the alliance, which includes an interest in Southwest Generation, a portfolio of ...

Tora expands to include Australia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... internal liquidity flow and the aggregation of liquidity from multiple venues in Asia, such as broker crossing engines and third-party pools. It provides the trading community with a central point of access to multiple off-exchange liquidity venues without ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
Australian shares are set for a strong opening after Wall Street posted its third largest gain of 2010 as better-than-expected home sales figures boosted optimism towards the US economy. At 0731 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... and Shanghai shares tumbled after data showed manufacturing in China eased in May, indicating a slowdown in the world's third biggest economy. The HSBC China Manufacturing PMI, or purchasing managers index, fell to an 11-month low of 52.7 last month ...