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Iron Ore price jumps 85 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... lift production supply. But since Australia accounts for less than one per cent of world oil demand and we only import one-third of what we use anyway, our status as a major OPEC influencer was likely going to be miniscule. Further undermining the country's ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... Macquarie Leisure Trust Group, which owns brands such as Dreamworld and Goodlife Health Clubs, said it had opened its assets to third-party brands for advertising. Shares in the group fell one cent to $1.66.

Planner buying spree tops $17bn

... followed by ING Australia's acquisition of FSP Group, which manages $2.5 billion FUA through more than 145 advisers. The third, fourth and fifth largest deals were all signed by INGA when ING-owned Millennium3 Financial Services bought Zurich's advisory ...

Mortgage arrears hit all-time high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2008
Arrears in Australia for securitised mortgages increased to 1.45 per cent during April, its highest ever recorded level, said Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (S&PRS). Securitised mortgages are those 20 per cent of mortgages where the funding is sourced ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2008
... quarterly earnings and package delivery company FedEx Corp forecast a weak fiscal 2009. Midwestern commercial bank Fifth Third Bancorp added to pressure on financial stocks by saying it would cut its dividend and raise $US2 billion in capital. The Dow ...

Industry funds steering clear of FHSAs

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2008
... managers for the benefit of the account holder." AIST did a survey of not-for-profit super funds and found that only about a third planned to offer an FHSA. Most of those that are planning to offer an account will use a product supplied by a bank, such ...

Self-employed lack super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
Nearly one-third of all self-employed Australians have zero superannuation, new research shows. Data released by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia Limited (ASFA) show around 28 per cent of the self-employed sector has no superannuation ...

Instos rushing to infrastructure

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Infrastructure has traditionally hovered at the outskirts of mainstream asset classes - but industry players are now putting more money into the sector as investors seek a safe haven from poor returns. According to RARE Infrastructure, institutional ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
... Composite Index was down 10.52 points, or 0.43 per cent, to close at 2,448.94. LONDON - Britain's top shares index fell for a third day in a row as commodity stocks weighed, though miner Eurasian Natural Resources rose on market talk of a merger with ...

Paid maternity leave must include super: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Paid maternity leave schemes must not ignore superannuation, warns the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). In its submission to the Productivity Commission, the AIST which is the peak super body for nearly two-thirds of the Australian ...