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Industry funds 'treat us like dirt': COSBOA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... recent changes to make it easier and more efficient for small businesses to administer super payments. It is important that easy administration for smaller businesses is not traded off against employees' superannuation entitlements."

Aged care services under funded and set to worsen

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... "There are less informal care networks than they used to be because families are smaller now, women usually work and it is easy that family members live in different cities, so formal care is somehow a substitute of yesterday's informal care." Productivity ...

Market Wrap AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... closed at new record highs on robust corporate earnings reports and the latest reaffirmation of the US Federal Reserve's easy-money policy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday rose 78.02 (0.50 per cent) to 15,548.54. The broad-market S&P 500 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... shares rose as investors welcomed a new reassurance by US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke that any tightening of the US easy-money tap would have to wait until economic recovery was firmly underway. Speaking to US Congress, Bernanke repeated that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... and S&P 500 vaulted to new records following Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's pledge to maintain the central bank's easy-money policy for the foreseeable future. At 0756 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 37 ...

BT insurance available on Asgard

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
... be accessed through super accounts on Asgard's platforms, BT Wrap as well as off-platform. "We want to make life insurance easy for customers and give them peace of mind. More funding options will help facilitate this - advisers can tailor plans to help ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
... shares prices rallied and the euro plummeted against the US dollar after the eurozone and British central banks signalled that easy-money policies to stimulate growth will continue for some time. The talk sent shares sharply higher, with London's FTSE ...

Westpac launches tailored info service for online investors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... online broker," head of Westpac Online Investing James Staltari said. "The Daily Share Tracker will give our customers an easy way to monitor their existing investments. It's a snapshot - a concise way of seeing how your portfolio is doing. It will also ...

Class Super beats BGL to launch automated property valuator

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... an automated valuation often being impossible for the latter. "Single tenancies [in commercial properties] are relatively easy to value, as are dual tenancies. But in a building with eight tenancies it gets very complicated," Lesh said. He said BGL is ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... in China is very similar to that seen in the US pre-GFC (global financial crisis)," Mr Lucas said. "Leverage was cheap and easy, investors and business leaders alike snapped up credit with glee and high leverage levels were king - then it collapsed. ...