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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
The Australian share market has received strongly positive leads from offshore trading overnight, as markets rebounded on optimism following the European rescue plan. At 0657 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was ...

US pension funds boost mortgages

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
The $146 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund has pumped $564 million into Fannie Mae mortgages in New York to help stabilise mortgage lending in the state. According to a press statement by state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, the $564 million ...

Savings boost for GenX and GenY

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
The government's proposed reforms to compulsory super give financial planners more reason to look after their next generation of clients. The recommended SG lift from 9 per cent to 12 per cent by 2019/20 will, unfortunately, mean little for those who ...

How high and how long

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." These words from Charles Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities, have again been brought to life by two opposing monetary prescriptions by two central banks - further interest rate hikes for the ...

Ready, steady, communicate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
Members don't care about super until close to retirement - myth or fact? According to ESI Super, it is a myth as increasingly financially literate members look to their super funds as "partners" before, during, and after retirement. The $2.8 billion ...

FOS appoints Belleville to board

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has appointed former Suncorp executive, Robert Belleville, as director for the service. Belleville previously worked at Suncorp as group executive of personal insurance and, prior to that, was chief executive at ...

FT launches second Asian real estate fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors has launched its Asian Real Estate fund 2 after the previous fund by the same name closed with over $420 million from European and Australian investors. The fund has the same structure as its predecessor - a private ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
The Australian stock market may open slightly lower and trading may be subdued as traders have little direction following public holidays in the US and China. At 0740 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was four ...

Hartsuyker takes aim at govt reviews

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
Luke Hartsuyker, shadow minister for financial services, superannuation, corporate law and consumer affairs, said the Government has failed to encourage Australians to invest in superannuation by creating an uncertain regulatory environment. Speaking ...

Cooper Review calls for SMSF structure overhaul

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... raised and, given the size of the sector, there should be a dispute body equivalent to the one available in financial services [FOS]. And with more than 65 per cent of SMSFs servicing an average of two members, the Review asked whether the structure ...