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To spend or not to spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... power by its pledge of fiscal austerity, the UK's Conservative-led Coalition announced more spending cuts and tax increases on top of the spending cuts and tax increases already announced by the previous government to tackle the country's yawning budget ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overnight trading offshore, with major Wall Street indices all lower, but precious metals and copper were higher. Oil, too, fell. At 0748 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

Aviva, AMP and CommInsure top insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... Investment Trends named Aviva, AMP and CommInsure as the benchmark setters in the life insurance sector, after taking the top three sports in the firm's inaugural Investment Trends Life Insurer Benchmarking Report. Aviva's top spot was driven by "superior ...

World-class Aussie funds reach Europe through UCITS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... assets, is among the first homegrown firms to capitalise on this new UCITS regime. The group now has a UCITS fund managed by its top-performing Asian fund manager Treasury Asia Asset Management (TAAM). Christine Feldmanis, managing director, Treasury ...

Investors turn to rev mortgages for income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... property." Deloitte's reverse mortgage market study, commissioned by SEQUAL, supports Conlon's observation. The study found the top three uses of reverse mortgages are home improvement, a regular income and debt repayment. Martin Lynch, head of reverse ...

Telstra Super appoints Leggo as chairman

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... most challenging investment climate faced by the superannuation industry, with Telstra Super continuing its ranking among the top performers in delivering investment returns to our members. Clive oversaw improvement in service to members and growth in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
The Australian stock market has had mixed leads from offshore markets overnight, with Wall Street, gold and silver trading lower, while copper and oil prices were higher. At 0730 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract ...

Lessons from US pension funds in crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... is California, with underfunding of approximately US$475 billion by the authors' calculations. The state did not make the top five as a percent of tax revenue because it collected $115 billion of tax revenue in 2007. Bearing in mind that the US pension ...

AFA calls for top advisers

AFA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
Financial planning groups have until end of July to hand in their nominations for the 2010 AFA Adviser of the Year Award and the 2010 Rising Star of the Year Award by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA). The Adviser of the Year Award, sponsored ...

SMSF education gains traction

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
More than 700 new members have joined SMSF online resource centre, www.thesmsfreview.com.au in its first three weeks of launching. Paragem Dealer Services introduced the website to the financial planning community in late May. Ian Knox, managing director ...