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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
The Australian stock market has opened flat as investors hold out for official confirmation of a widely tipped interest rate cut. The stock market was down 2.5 points at 5091.3 after opening on Tuesday. Commsec analyst Juliette Saly said the flat start ...

Strong returns put UniSuper back in the black

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
Strong investment returns from rebounding capital markets have strengthened UniSuper's balance sheet sufficiently to enable the fund trustee board to announce they no longer need to consider reducing members' benefits to maintain the fund's solvency. ...

Advisers warned to check pension start dates after new ruling

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
Advisers have been warned to pay closer attention to pension start dates following a tax office ruling explaining when a superannuation income stream commences and when it ceases, and consequently when a superannuation income stream is payable and taxable. ...

Super flushed 'down the drain' by illiterate investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
The Australian share market has rallied on the back of positive manufacturing data from the United States, undeterred by a weaker economic outlook from the federal government. The Australian share market was 0.7 per cent higher in early afternoon trade ...

Bank levy upsets senior lobby

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
Lobby group National Seniors Australia have criticised the government's plan to put a 0.05% levy on bank deposits in 2016, saying it will force pensioners into riskier investment alternatives. National Seniors Australia chief executive Michael O'Neill ...

Senior CBA exec puts blame on the bank for Storm disaster

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
Senior Commonwealth Bank (CBA) executive Ian Bailey declared that the bank's retail division had a role in the collapse of Storm Capital in January 2009. A document detailing an examination to Bailey by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

ASFA calls for clarity on Labor's super law freeze

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has called on the government to clarify whether the announced but yet-to-be-legislated superannuation reforms will be dropped as part of Labor's promise of a five-year super tax freeze. ASFA chief ...

Data diarrhoea

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013

EQT urges The Trust Company to avoid "fruitless" efforts

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
Equity Trustees (EQT) has urged The Trust Company board to give reassurance that it would consider recommending the EQT offer of acquisition to its shareholders in order to avoid "an unnecessary and fruitless exercise for all concerned." EQT complained ...