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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
Australian shares are are expected to open lower as caution returned to US markets after Tuesday's unexpected rally. Concerns were fuelled by auto giant General Motors moving further towards bankruptcy. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the ...

Karara pulls retail strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Australian equities investment boutique, Karara Capital is putting the firm's push into the local retail market on ice and focussing it efforts on gaining more institutional mandates. This news comes after Karara Capital advised Standard & Poor's to ...

Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The UK's pension regulator should investigate the funding plans of companies where deficit repayments will take more than 15 years, rather than the current ten, said a key industry body. According to an "eight point action plan" by UK business industry ...

Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... started all this still has to rise from the ashes. The Case-Shiller US National home price index fell by 2.2 per cent in March -- its 31st consecutive monthly decline - and by 18.7 per cent from a year ago. This indeed paints a gloomy picture of the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Australian shares are are expected to open higher after strong gains in US and European stocks after better than expected US consumer confidence data raised hopes of economic recovery. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price ...

Raise SG to 15 pc: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
A survey found that seven out of 10 working Australians believe that their Superannuation Guarantee (SG) contributions should be raised to 15 per cent, lending support to industry associations that have long lobbied for higher SG. Mercer's SG Opinion ...

NAB Super introduces binding death benefits

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Members of the $3.1 billion corporate fund NAB Group Superannuation Fund can now apply for binding death benefit nominations. The fund, which said in March that it was considering introducing the benefit, are now allowing members to provide the fund ...

Regulators call for better OTC derivatives processing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
APRA, ASIC and the RBA have released a report that identifies where major fund managers and super funds can improve in terms of how they manage OTC derivatives in the wake of the credit crisis. This month the regulators and the RBA released the findings ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Australian shares are likely to fall after another US weekly unemployment claims record raised concerns that the recent rally in equities was too fast. Investor sentiment was also dented by a warning from ratings agency Standard & Poor's that it may ...

Acronyms pull down USD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Indications are emerging that markets are 'starting to heal' but 'forceful and sustained' policy actions are still needed. These words from US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner perhaps best sum up the macro-environment for the second quarter economy ...