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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open lower on Thursday, following heavy falls on Wall Street overnight in both commodities prices and equities. On the ASX 24 at 0718 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 56 points lower at 4,729. ...

Budget 2011: "Benign" Budget a relief for finance sector

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Extended relief for compulsory pension fund draw-downs, encouragement for super funds to invest in infrastructure and a reiteration of the promise to increase the super guarantee to 12 per cent were functions of a budget that commentators labeled bland. ...

Budget 2011: Advisers granted budget wish

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Financial advisers have been granted at least one wish in this year's budget. From July 1 those who breach the concessional contributions cap by up to $10,000 have been given the option to withdraw the excess funds to avoid penalty tax rates. The concession ...

Budget 2011: CGT tax to restrict super trading

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
The government has moved to prevent superannuation funds, including SMSFs, from aggressively trading shares by making any resulting gains and losses subject to capital gains tax. The removal of the exception for super funds trading stocks, primarily ...

Noonan takes ACSI presidency

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Media Super chairman Gerard Noonan has been appointed as the new president of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). Noonan will be supported by incoming deputy president Trish Donohue, who is executive manager of investments for ...

Bloomberg Tradebook taps into research vein

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Bloomberg Tradebook has released new client-focused programs in a bid to build up its research offerings, with a focus on transparency and client access to information. Available to their Australian clients, the global agency broker has introduced an ...

China's HNWs hold $1.2tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
China's economy is now advancing so quickly that its high net worth sector is already worth almost as much as Australia's entire superannuation market but growing four times faster. According to research just released by global consultant Bain & Company ...

Regulators cautioned on world exchanges

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
Tony D'Aloisio, chairman, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, has warned regulators of the dangers of misunderstanding stock exchange mergers speaking at an international conference for the last time as chairman. At the 2011 International ...

ASX fines broker for bad behaviour

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
The Australian Stock Exchange has imposed a $75,000 fine on broking house IMC Pacific for behaviour that left disorderly markets in two securities, including QBE shares trading at less than half of one cent, it said yesterday. The stock exchange said ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
Destination: Highway one point seven zero. Yes Virginia, this is what the current euphoria on the Australian dollar has led to - the currency is now extrapolated to reach 1.70 against the US dollar by 2014. According to The Australian newspaper, not ...