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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... are starting to be a little bit more positive than expected." In the US overnight, Wall Street extended its rally into a third day. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 239.66 points to 7,170.06. Stock Move Price AMP +0.140 4.100 ANZ Bank +0.470 13.330 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... All Ordinaries index dipped 8.7 points, or 0.27 per cent, to 3,190.4. NEW YORK - Wall Street has extended its rally into a third day as investors took in stride a cut in General Electric Co's credit rating. Standard & Poor's lowered GE's top rating one ...

Contributions surge to 25pc of wages

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... $167 billion, or an amount equivalent to 38 per cent of total wages and salaries. The revised contribution figure, up one-third on previously published numbers, means BetterSuper pumped an extra $64 billion in contributions into super funds, an increase ...

NAB merges three wealth units

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... different agenda," said Healey. MLC manages more than $90 billion of investor money as at September last year. It is the third largest multi-manager in the world with more than 8 per cent of global market share based on 2007 figures. More than 3,000 ...

US advisers keen on equities

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... financial advisers in the US found 53 per cent of respondents are re-allocating client portfolios to cash and roughly a third a moving client money to fixed income. But, at the same time, 42 per cent said they are positioning client portfolios for a ...

RIAA adds more members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... across the whole fund given the number of socially responsible funds out there, but we can look at it being part of one third of the fund," said Steffanoni. "As the number of SRI funds rises we'd like to increase that allocation." Other RIAA members ...

RBC Dexia tops custody survey

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... "rest of the world" category in the annual R&M Consultants Global Custody Survey. Overall the Canadian custodian ranked third - representing the sixth consecutive year the company has occupied one of the top three spots in the survey. According to Richard ...

Efficiency and social equity best way to fix super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... contributions are physically collected is the main problem, reporting in another paper that it accounts for as much one-third of the administration fees charged even by industry funds, ISN said sales costs are the major problem. "The systemic causes ...

CSRF supports Catholic Schools Week

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... Retirement Fund is partnering with Catholic Schools Week in 2009 to help boost super and financial literacy. This year marks the third time CRSF will be supporting the dioceses of New South Wales and ACT in their promotion of Catholic schools. According ...

Insurance taxes should be slashed: NIBA

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... basic insurance like home and contents cover. NIBA's announcement came following estimates by insurers that as many as one-third of the houses destroyed in the Victorian bushfires were not insured. "Insurance must be affordable to be effective, yet state ...