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Surprise tapering delay boosts Australian shares

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
The Federal Open Market Committee's surprise decision not to begin tapering its stimulus measures has brought a fresh wave of confidence to Australian investors, according to industry experts. Federal Reserve chairman Ban Bernanke said the US would ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
The Australian share market has opened higher after the US Federal Reserve surprised investors by deciding to continue with its $US85 billion-a-month stimulus scheme. The All Ordinaries had jumped 59.7 points, or 1.14 per cent, to 5,290.1 after opening ...

ASIC's SMSF report being misread

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
... SuperIQ said, "If you have less than $200,000 a SMSF is going to be more expensive that an APRA [regulated] fund - no big surprise [as] this is consistent with ASIC's previous guidance. There are reasons you might still want to use an SMSF but it wouldn't ...

EQT makes last attempt to attract TRU shareholders

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013
In a last attempt to attract The Trust Company shareholders to its buyout proposal, Equity Trustees (EQT) has extended its offer for the company. The announcement arrives after this week The Trust Company board recommended its shareholders to reject ...

NAB delays staff salary increases

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013
While ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and Westpac have recently agreed to improve employees' working conditions, National Australia Bank's (NAB's) answer to the Financial Services Union (FSU) demands was "mean and disappointing." The FSU said that NAB offered ...

NGS Super rethinks ESG as green option flops

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
NGS Super is launching a new socially responsible investment option that will screen out tobacco, armaments and pornography, after its green shares option failed to attract sufficient interest. NGS Super chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball said that ...

Appetite for overseas assets continues to grow

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... Australian investors are planning to make investments in overseas assets over the next three months, partly driven by a surprise lift in appetite for fixed income investments, according to the latest Certitude Global Investor Intentions Index. The Index ...

Under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
"Does this guy ever shut up?" Then Opposition leader, now Australia's 28th Prime Minister (let's dispense with the "elect", shall we?) Tony Abbott was portrayed as an arrogant aggressor when he blurted out these words on 21 August during his leadership ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... were taking their lead from weakness in European and US markets. "Last night, we had losses across the board so no big surprise that we have had a bit of a weak start to the session," he said. The big four banks were all lower, with ANZ down 33 cents ...

Sunsuper CEO steps down

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... CEO," Sunsuper chairman Graham Heilbronn told Financial Standard. Heilbronn said that Lally's decision didn't come as a surprise to Sunsuper. "Not really, he has been with us for many years and through lots of changes. Like our previous chief executive ...