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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open in negative territory as Wall Street plunged over two per cent overnight. At 0706 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was down 50 points at 3,690. In economic news on Tuesday ...

Super is for income, not wealth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
Super funds should start reporting their performance based on how much income they can provide to members on retirement, not on how much they return in the intervening period when the savings are locked up, said a US-based retirement expert. Don Ezra ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open little changed following the pullback in US stocks after Monday's surge. Resource stocks may decline after metals prices fell. At 0728 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was ...

Competition not so super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
A new report just released by Roy Morgan Research (RMR) reveals attempts to introduce competition into the superannuation market are not working. According to the report, only 3 per cent of super fund members have switched funds in the last twelve months ...

Local funds hold firm on US equities

MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
Super funds are holding firm on their exposure to US equities despite the Dow Jones Index slipping below 7,000, its lowest level in more than a decade. Melbourne based investment consultancy, JANA Investment Advisers head of investment outcomes, Ken ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
The Australian share market has received strongly negative leads from overseas, as US markets hit 12-year lows amid worsening concerns about financial companies and the economy. A further bailout of US insurer American International Group, which also ...

Comm Bank opens cap protected product

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
Commonwealth Bank has launched a capital protected investment product, Capital Series Australia II. The product provides two strategies; one gives investors total capital protection at maturity, with the potential for up to 80 per cent capital growth ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
The Australian market has received a strong lead from Wall Street, although precious metals were down. Copper and oil both were up, however. At 0808 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 70 points HIGHER at 3,385. In economic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open lower after shares on Wall Street slid again on Monday. All three key Wall Street indices were down, as were oil, gold and silver. Copper was up, however. At 0757 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the ...

Biggest Loser Part 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
The contest for 'The Biggest Loser' went into full swing as bad news continued to flow. Right on the heels of the Eurozone's 1.5 per cent economic contraction in the fourth quarter, Japan's weigh in showed that its economy lost more, down 3.3 per cent ...