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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
The Australian share market has received generally positive leads from overseas, with Wall Street indices closing higher, oil up strongly, and metals returning flat results. At 0735 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index ...

Retirees want funds that last a lifetime

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
Investment products that will be in hot demand in the future, such as lifetime annuities, are in short supply - but not for long. Today the peak body for retirees, National Seniors Australia, welcomed news that the Henry review will look at new income ...

Macq prepares for longevity risk

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
Australian investors who are dying for longevity-type products widely available in the US but not locally will soon see a raft of these products hit the shelves, with Macquarie Funds Group setting up an entire team purpose-built for this one product ...

Industrial espionage turns viral

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
The financial services industry could face more threats of industrial espionage online through malicious software technology often associated with credit card fraud, warns an IT security expert. At a time when banks, fund managers and super funds already ...

ASIC cracks down on MIS scammer

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
ASIC has turned its attention on a managed investment scheme (MIS) operator, James Kentwell Lovell, who allegedly fleeced $7.9 million from 200 investors, including self-managed super funds. On 29 July 2009, ASIC obtained interim orders in the Supreme ...

Cooper the competition crusader is coming

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Jeremy Cooper, head of the government's all powerful review into the structure of superannuation, has poured cold water on a national default fund but opened the door to a tiered model that would allow fund members to step up into more sophisticated ...

Downturn presents brand opportunity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Super funds have the power to restore public confidence in superannuation, which quickly eroded after the GFC, by investing more on their brands, said the marketing firm behind the successful 'Kevin 07'campaign. Marketing firm, Lawrence Creative Strategy ...

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
Days like these, I should have stayed in bed a bit longer. For this is one of those days when overnight action on Wall Street offered no adrenaline hit to my system. Will have to settle for three coffee cups this morning. The S&P slipped 0.3 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket was over one per cent higher at noon, trading almost at a nine month high, as Rio Tinto and other commodity-related stocks gained. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 47.5 points, or 1.16 per cent, at 4137.3 while ...

Media Super hires ING as insurer

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Media Super has appointed ING Life as its new insurer for death and total and permanent disability insurance cover, and its income protection cover. The appointment follows a six-month intensive tender process. Media Super, an industry super fund with ...