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Hands off SMSFs, warns assoc

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... significant problems." Concerning the AIA is that investors set up SMSFs because they want more control over their super and anything that undermines that contravenes this objective. "Eighty six per cent of member trustees report that having greater ...

Kiwis confused on retirement investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... representing more than one million people. The survey found of that one million people, 56 per cent said they did not know anything about the scheme. In addition, respondents said the KiwiSaver had a government guarantee, when in fact it does not. Only ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... 'we do have the greatest economic machine that man has ever created' only highlights the market's pre-occupation with anything and everything scary. Incidentally, Bloomberg quoted data compiled by Yale University Professor Robert Shiller again last night ...

Up, down, flat trading day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... system standby. You can reason one way or the other until you're blue in the face but the fact remains that there wasn't anything new in last night's data releases. It's the same old, same old mix of negatives and positives. Besides, no one can make ...

Positive spin to bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... float bonds for their construction projects. The housing sector remains weak - and perhaps weakening. Big Ben did not say anything new. The job stimulus should be taken as negative for it adds to America's ballooning deficit. But Wall Street wanted an ...

In the eyes of the beholder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... to grief because whatever growth there will be in the US would be weak given the poor state of the labour market. Has anything changed significantly this week from the last one? Yet Wall Street was on the up and up over the past three trading days. It ...

Australia better than triple A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... estimate for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2010. Note the word after the numbers start with a 'B" and not a "TR". Is there anything higher than a AAA?

HLB Mann Judd search for Henry clues

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... Henry Review, a leading tax expert takes a stab at what the new regime could be. Although the Treasurer is not giving anything away regarding the outcome of the Henry Review, Jolyon Dare, tax director at HLB Mann Judd in Sydney, reckons the Henry Tax ...

Cannae Capital joins Investors Mutual

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... no intention of leaving in the near future, he said the deal provides him with more options. "There is no intention of anything happening in a hurry but clearly it provides the options in the longer term," he said. "Hopefully it will reduce the stress ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... actions contributed to the crisis that paralysed the credit markets and worsened the recession, investors did not hear anything from the hearings that would encourage them to flee financial stocks. The improved forecast from Kraft was welcome news but ...