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Retirement savings gap to reshape Aussie workforce

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
Inadequate retirement savings will force more Australians to work past the average retirement age of 60, creating new challenges for planners when mapping out the right financial plan. According to a survey of more 1,200 people last October, a high ...

Investing on thin ice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
A leading fixed income manager likens the market to a car careening into a frozen pond and fishtailing before steadying - except the car could still crash and is still on thin ice. Roger Bridges, head of fixed income at $10 billion-plus fund manager ...

Credit Suisse appoints Aussie for asset management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Australian, Neil Harvey, has returned to Credit Suisse as managing director and head of Asia Pacific and head of emerging markets global for its asset management business after a stint in a number of other Asia Pacific firms. Harvey comes back to Credit ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
The Australian share market has received generally positive leads overnight, with all three key Wall Street indices higher, along with precious metals and copper, although the price of crude oil fell again. At 0824 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
The Australian market has received negative leads from overseas, with Wall Street indices lower, along with precious and base metals and oil. At 0830 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 50 points lower at 4,841. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
Australian shares are likely to open higher on Friday after US stocks gained on better than expected US export figures. At 0711 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 26 points higher at 4,640. In company news ...

Boardrooms lack female directors: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
More than half of the country's ASX200 listed companies don't have a female board director - prompting one gender advocacy group to release a name-and-shame report on the gender imbalance that continues to prevail in the financial services sector. Women ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overseas trading overnight, with Wall Street indices flat, precious metals mixed and oil flat. At 0805 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 34 points lower ...

Men behaving womanly

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
Men are living longer than they used to, thanks to women, and the narrowing of the mortality gap between both genders must be factored in any financial plan, said a demographics expert. Actuarial statistics on the mortality of the Australian population ...

Opt out, bailed out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
The latest ruling against three people posing as "financial advisers" when they weren't licensed as advisers at all exposes the flaw in the current legislative regime where unlicensed professionals can operate outside strict compliance laws Marianna ...