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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 FEB 2008
The Australian stock market was over two per cent in the red at noon, dragged down by heavy falls in banking stocks, after Wall Street finished weaker overnight. Analysts said continuing "ordinary news" on the US economy was weighing heavily on the ...

QSuper offers low cost option

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
QSuper has designed a low cost balanced option, Basic Growth, which boasts a low management expense ratio by focusing on passive investments. Basic Growth maintains a low management expense ratio (MER) of 0.32 per cent for 2007/08 due to passive investments ...

Centrelink lends hand on fin literacy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
... Instead they offer information regarding how various investments are assessed under the social security income or asset test, basic taxation requirements and the risk levels associated with different financial strategies. According to Centrelink, employed ...

Breakthrough on super fund fee processing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... able to slash manpower and hardware costs - ultimately boosting their bottom line. The CapitalX tests were carried out on a basic install of SQL Server 2008, running on Windows Server 2008. Syncsoft ran tests on a master trust to test a complex product ...

Deadly Trojan targets 400 banks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
Imagine logging in to your bank account online, making a transaction, then finding out that you've just given your details - and funds - to a nameless hacker. Now imagine the Trojan targeting the users of 400 banks worldwide, including several institutions ...

First State Super boosts insurance by two-thirds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... underwriting requirements," he said. The improvements came into effect at the beginning of this month by increasing the automatic basic death and total and permanent disablement cover from one to three units. In a major move however, members can opt-out ...

China's pension to dwarf Australia

MICHAEL HOBBS AND CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
... small base, it will eclipse Australia's market once it cements its investment infrastructure. "China had a fairly simple, basic, company-based structure with only a very small proportion of employees who were employed by corporates receiving any retirement ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
The Australian sharemarket was in the red at noon following sharp falls in base metal prices and another soft lead from Wall Street. At 1202 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 33.2 points lower at 6495.4, while the All Ordinaries had declined ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
The Australian stockmarket had made solid gains by midday today pushed up by financial stocks after confidence returned to Wall Street overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 77.8 points higher at 6593 while the All Ordinaries gained ...

MTAA super revs up retirement seminars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... retirement strategies, tax effective investing and tips on maximising your superannuation. "It is important for members to have a basic understanding of how their super works in order to then have some meaningful input into their wealth accumulation ...