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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat after a fluctuating night on Wall Street where a rebound in tech stocks offset a transport industry, including airlines, slump. At 0800 AEDT on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was unchanged ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... for drugs that will not hit the market for many years. LONDON - European stock markets pulled back as worries over Greece offset positive German data, analysts say, with focus also on the aviation sector as more details of the Alps plane crash emerged. ...

Global dividend growers suit retirement income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... fairly steady stream of income for investors' current needs, they fall short of delivering the growing income that can help offset the impact of inflation over long periods of time." Budden added that high yield Australian equities tend to be dominated ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... Treasuries and we get more fuel for greenback appreciation and the upward pressure on Treasuries exerted by a rates lift off offset by foreign purchases of US Treasuries. Perhaps the currency war is not a zero sum game after all. Janet can start lift-off ...

Punitive excess contributions tax removed

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... earnings rate by applying the ATO's General Interest Charge rate to the excess non-concessional contribution. A 15% tax offset is then passed on to the superannuation fund member as compensation for tax paid on the investment earnings. SMSF Association ...

ECT reforms pass Senate

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... assessable income and taxed at the individual's marginal tax rate. The individual will be entitled to a non-refundable tax-offset equal to 15% of the associated earnings amount. "The new arrangements are fairer," Agland says. "It still imposes penalties ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street. At 0900 AEDT on Wednesday, the share price index futures contract was down 13 points at 5,910. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... statements from Greek officials that alternative reform proposals will be drawn up ahead of an EU loan extension deadline offset falls by several companies that posted disappointing earnings reports. The market fell in early trade but picked up as the ...

Insurers grow market share at cost of profits

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... market share consolidation of Australia's four biggest wholesale insurers (TAL, AIA Australia, CommInsure and Metlife) is offset by declining profits in the long-term, according to Rice Warner's Wholesale Risk Insurance Report. The "big four" group risk ...

Zenith rates Mercer LifetimePlus

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... positive nature of MLP not being reliant on expensive insurance premiums (and not being subject to benefit risk), is somewhat offset by the fact that the concept will rely on necessary growth in the products and scale to generate payments coming from ...