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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
The Australian share market is trading slightly lower after disappointing US jobs figure. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Hefferan said the most recent US employment figures may have fallen short of expectations but had followed two months of very ...

APRA issues warning on group risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
Insurance regulator the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a warning that while the overall life insurance is in reasonable financial shape, sustained pressure on the group risk sector is becoming a strategic threat that insurers ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street closed mostly higher following a surprisingly weak US jobs report. At 0645 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down four points at 5,286. The monthly US Labor ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on international bourses amid growing speculation the Federal Reserve may start cutting its stimulus program this month. At 0858 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract ...

Think Holden, think not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
OMG! They killed Kenny...errr, Holden. Australia would be watching Holden's tail lights as it drives its car-making business out of Australia in 2017, Holden managing director Mike Devereux announced yesterday. This is because, like a spoiled brat ...

AUI investors approve property fund merger

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
Investors in Australian Unity Investments' (AUI) Fifth Commercial Trust (FCT) have approved the merger with AUI's Office Property Fund (OPF). The decision will result in a $370 million property fund which holds office properties in New South Wales ...

LGS carbon screening possible, but not imminent

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
The board of Local Government Super (LGS) will consider toughening its screening of investments in companies exposed to coal mining and other fossil fuels, but is unlikely to make any decisions before February, according to LGS head of sustainability ...

SPAA defends status quo on SMSF regulation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
The self-managed superannuation super (SMSF) sector is not being poorly regulated, according to SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery. Slattery's comments came in response to a recent survey in which around ...

APRA issues draft group insurance PPG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
APRA has written to life insurance chief executives announcing a new draft Prudential Practice Guide (PPG) for how they should handle operational and business issues and risks surrounding group insurance sold to super funds. The regulator said the PPG ...

Expected retirement age slowly going up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
Despite the policy push for increasing the retirement age, most Australians are still retiring in their early fifties even though more future retirees expect to have to keep working beyond age 70. The average age of retirement in Australia in 2012-13 ...