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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... dropped 37.3 points, or 0.79 per cent, to 4702.0. NEW YORK - Wall Street shares tumbled on Thursday as an unexpected jump in weekly initial jobless claims and a disappointing survey on manufacturing stoked concerns over economic recovery. The Dow Jones ...

Asset Super pumps up insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... tackle underinsurance. The $1.1 billion industry fund will increase each unit of standard cover by 2.5 per cent for the same weekly cost. Automatic life stage increases will also be matched to the amount of Death only or Death & Total and Permanent Disability ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... that had sent the major indices up about five per cent in less than two weeks. Stocks managed to carve out their sixth weekly advance in seven weeks, but the gains were minimal. Investors are nervous as they head into September, historically the stock ...

City Super adopts weekly unit pricing

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
The $1.1 billion Brisbane-based City Super is now using weekly unit pricing to determine the value of members' investments - a shift away from its previous monthly declared rates. City Super, which had $1.13 billion at the end of June according to Rainmaker ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... contract was 50 points higher at 4347. In economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases average weekly earnings data for the May quarter, and the Housing Industry Association issues its housing affordability report for the June ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... nation's biggest store chains posted disappointing sales for July as consumers, worried about jobs, spent gingerly. A mixed weekly unemployment report offered investors little encouragement ahead of Friday's numbers. The government said new claims for ...

TWUSUPER ramps up fund features

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... with more choice and efficiency. TWUSUPER, which had $1.85 billion in funds under management at 31 March, had moved to weekly crediting rates last month - ditching its prior monthly switching arrangement. According to a statement on the fund's website ...

Retirement adequacy beats market slump

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... the rate of inflation" over the period, said Richardson and is actually well below the 2.6 per cent growth in the average weekly earnings of workers. "Average adequacy levels are therefore lower than those seen in that period to June 2008...that fall ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 36.65 points, or 0.45 per cent, to settle at 8,146.52, closing out a fourth consecutive weekly loss for blue chips. The tech-heavy Nasdaq edged up 3.48 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 1,756.03 while the broad market Standard ...

Bigger and better risk management

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... there's been a number of them that stem from high level risk management issues. "They were reassessing risk on a daily or weekly basis - not on a real time basis. "And in today's world, with the ability to electronically trade and move information you ...