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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... showed the sector's resilience in the face of an economic slowdown. The Nasdaq gained one per cent after Broadcom Corp, a top chipmaker for mobile phones, beat its quarterly revenue target. The results fueled a 4.1 per cent jump in an index of semiconductor ...

Sovereigns in a league of their own

... to grow to more than $18.4 trillion in 10 years, according to Morgan Stanley data, with Australia's Future Fund making the top ten list by fund size. Fears that sovereign funds could potentially overstep their mark in countries they invest in, by the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... 1.17 per cent, at 1,464.07. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 31.50 points, or 1.25 per cent, at 2,552.80. LONDON - Britain's top share index ended flat as plans by Royal Bank of Scotland for a rights issue and poor results from Bank of America led banks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... 1.81 per cent, to 1,390.33. The Nasdaq Composite Index soared 61.14 points, or 2.61 per cent, to 2,402.97. LONDON - Britain's top share index rose 1.3 per cent to hit its highest closing level in seven weeks, led by banks after quarterly earnings from ...

Carbon transport the next big thing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... sectors which are set to benefit from this movement," he added, citing that alongside clean coal, nuclear energy is also on top of the list. He explained that while renewable energy sources such as hydro, solar and wind turbines are here to stay, those ...

Retirement age must rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... Royal Bank of Canada, 60 per cent of those surveyed said that extended health care benefits are the most important factor (top three mentions) in deciding to stay in the workforce. Trailing health care were flexible work hours (47 per cent), having a ...

Fix productivity, fix education

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
All the debate about up-skilling through sharpening our educational curriculum might be missing one key detail - students don't like technical subjects and it's a major long term threat to our global productivity. A review just released by the Australian ...

Macq predicts SG to top 9pc

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
Australia's superannuation guarantee level is set to rise above the current 9 per cent under the Rudd Government, predicts a head strategist at Macquarie. Pointing out that it was the Labor government that set the wheels of the present super regime ...

Bravura becomes a prime buy target

... Mercer Human Resource Capital as clients. It also provides the superannuation administration software to four of the country's top five third-party superannuation administrators. Lift's troubles has certainly spoiled Bravura's performance record to date. ...

NAB boutique launches retail fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... National Australia Bank's direct investment management business; nabinvest. During this time, the fund consistently achieved top quartile performance over one, two and three year periods. An Intech Survey also ranked the fund in the top two Australian ...