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Resistance grows to SG increase

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
Opposition is growing to increasing the Superannuation Guarantee and the super funds industry has a major fight on its hands. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) said it rejects financial services industry claims that the SG increase ...

More HNW investors happy with planners during crisis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... and private bank relationships. What's changed is more people with over $1 million are saying 'a financial planner is a major part of my strategy'. Planners have made a lot more inroads." John McMurdo, chief executive at Centric Wealth, said while HNW ...

HOSTPLUS opens NT and Sydney offices

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... territory in Australia. It is also an area of potential growth for HOSTPLUS, where the tourism and hospitality industries are major local employers, noted the press release. Through its Parramatta office the fund is looking to expand its service offering ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... unilateral overnight move to ban naked short selling in eurozone government bonds, associated insurance derivatives and 10 major financial stocks added to a sense of crisis in Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's later warning that stringent regulation ...

AMP Cap maintains high tenancy rate

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
AMP Capital Investors have retained three major tenants for their Bridge Street building in Sydney, keeping the vacancy rate of the AMP Capital Wholesale Office fund more than four times lower than the Australian average. Baker & McKenzie, Bupa Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... financial and resources sectors. It was "another day when we are bleeding in this war of attrition," Mr Heffernan said. "The major stocks that are being hit are the banks with fears about Greece and China." Stocks were trading at their lowest since August ...

Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... the time -- traded at 4 trillion to a single US dollar. Before the euro, the mark was second only to the US dollar as a major international reserve currency. This was born out of the German central bank's -- the Bundesbank -- strict policies against ...

Global investors push for corruption info

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... coalition of international fund managers, pension funds and super funds representing more than $1.7 trillion have written to 21 major companies urging them to improve their disclosure of bribery and corruption risks. The investors asked companies from ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... Westpac, which was down 5.3 per cent, or $1.32, at $23.57, after the stock went ex-dividend on Monday. Just behind Westpac were major miners Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton respectively. Rio was off 4.49 per cent, or $3.05, at $64.95, while BHP backpedalled ...

Raising SG could impact regional companies

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... is a win for working Australians - but the impacts of increased SG levels on small businesses in regional Australia is a major concern, argues Prime Super. The government's reforms to superannuation is a step in the right direction, they said, but more ...