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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street surged more than one per cent following the Federal Reserve's statement on interest rates. At 0815 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up 27 points at 5,880. ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
"Word has finished searching the selection. The search item was not found. Do you want to search the remainder of the document?" Yes please, sir. Nah, it still couldn't find "patient" - or "patience" - in the Fed's monetary policy statement (that I ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
Whoopsie, I just got caught sleeping behind the wheels (er, keyboard). I just found out that there's now a term for the current "patient"-induced volatility in the financial markets. Reuters called (past tense) it "patient panic" in its published article ...

CalPERS meetings open to members

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
Australian pension funds, both not-for-profit and retail, may pride themselves on their governance and transparency but US pension fund giant CalPERS shows how far behind they are on world's best practice. CalPERS, the A$375 billion California public ...

NAB too big to change culture overnight: Thorburn

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB) chief executive Andrew Thorburn has admitted that cultural change in such large organisation "probably takes five, 10 years," in light of the regulator's concerns about its financial planning arm. Thorburn noted that NAB ...

Super performs well in board gender diversity index

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
The superannuation sector was one of the top performers in the latest rebalance of the Boardroom Diversity Index. Along with Sport, ASX100 companies and Cooperative Research Centres, Super was one of only four sectors to show gains of more than 5% in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street lifted more than one per cent as investors weighed the timing of US interest-rate increases after lower-than-forecast economic data. At 0818 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street fell on renewed anxiety over falling oil prices and the rising US dollar. At 0805 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down 11 points at 5,801. In local economic ...

SMSF growth driven by investor satisfaction

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
The relative level of satisfaction with self-managed super fund (SMSF) performance is a likely driver for SMSFs' continued growth and significant market share, according to Roy Morgan Research. Roy Morgan's findings are based on a survey of 15,084 superannuation ...

Government "tinkering" tops super industry worries

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
Superannuation industry stakeholders are most concerned about "increasing government tinkering and regulation," a survey by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and BNP Paribas revealed. "Over 40% of respondents think regulatory ...