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PC to review how defaults appointed to Awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
The Productivity Commission will in 2012 review how default funds are appointed to Industrial Awards, said superannuation minister Bill Shorten, just one day after APRA released figures showing that the retail sector has again under performed the not-for-profit ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
The Australian stock market was firmer at noon, as negative offshore leads gave way to improved investor sentiment after the release of domestic jobs data for May. At 1205 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 17.2 points, or 0.38 per cent, at ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... about my positive views about falling commodity prices - they put downward pressure on inflation and ease the need for aggressive monetary policy tightening, thereby assuring that the global recovery proceeds - as planned. This was the prevailing thought ...

Budget 2011: CGT tax to restrict super trading

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
The government has moved to prevent superannuation funds, including SMSFs, from aggressively trading shares by making any resulting gains and losses subject to capital gains tax. The removal of the exception for super funds trading stocks, primarily ...

Russell commodities fund on hold

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... Investments said the fund, which has $50 million worth of assets under management, will now be managed on a slightly more aggressive footing by the Stamford, Connecticut, based managers. "It's essentially an upgrade of managers," he said. Sneddon said ...

Asgard upgrades insurance for FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... business reintegrating its insurance offer. The move is in line with their three-year business plan, including a more aggressive strategy towards providing direct equities, model portfolios and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to its platform. "What we are ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
The Australian share market edged back into the black by noon despite end-of-quarter profit taking and weakness in the energy sector weighing on the market. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 5.5 points higher, by 0.11 per cent, at 4,827.7 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... 868.13 points. Also on Monday, the Bank of Japan pumped nearly $US25 billion more into the market as it continued an aggressive emergency fund operation following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. It has now injected a total of 39 trillion yen ($US480 ...

Share plummet overplayed - fund managers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
Fund managers remain cautiously optimistic for global growth despite the dramatic fall in global share prices sparked by the threat of nuclear catastrophe in Japan. A huge market sell off occurred yesterday afternoon when another explosion hit a Fukishima ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... per cent, and Mumbai fell 1.47 per cent. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand share market plunged to a two-month low amid aggressive selling on world markets, after the Japanese prime minister raised the spectre of a nuclear disaster following several explosions ...