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Age and marriage trigger retirement planning: AXA

... companies they invest in go broke. Consistent with conventional wisdom on what drives people to look at their finances, major tax incentives remain a key motivator for many to start saving seriously. The survey once again raises concerns regarding a ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... August is released and the Reserve Bank of Australia board meets. The Australian stock market shrugged off the effect of some major companies going ex-dividend on Monday to record a strong rise, helped by a positive lead from the United States last Friday. ...

Pentacle adds more experience to the team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... the rest of the Pentacle team made up of Burkitt, chairman Professor Bob Officer, independent director Michael Easson and major shareholder Salta Properties, who brought their property fund of funds products to market earlier this year.

Five major banks spend six times more on ads than super sector

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
... be more than twice what was spent by the entire industry super fund sector for the whole year. Advertising spend by the major banks over the last year is also estimated at around $120 million, though specific figures were not supplied by AC Neilson even ...

UniSuper revises major mandates

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
UniSuper has announced sweeping changes to its public markets portfolio on the back of a detailed review of major asset classes. Head of public markets, Paul Laband, headed a specialist team responsible for reviewing the key listed asset classes of ...

Zenith names top global managers

... volatility. He added that dividend yields are still lower overseas compared to Australia and do not carry franking benefits. The major risk would be higher inflation leading to higher interest rates. "We also urge investors to be cautious in their allocations ...

Fees versus commission not an issue

The fees versus commissions debate is much ado about nothing according to an online survey which found that majority of financial planners say it's disclosure that counts. A Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich Australia) online survey of financial ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... approximately $36 billion by 2009-2010 as a result of planned infrastructure spending. In managing the NSW Budget there are two major problems - a quarter of a per cent increase in interest rates equates to an $84 million additional cost to state debt ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... Pipeline Trust. The Australian share market closed little changed yesterday as investors held back waiting for the release of major economic data out of the US this week. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 rose 0.6 of a point to 5024.2 while the all ordinaries ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
... 50,000 between 2002 and 2005. Data released by the federal Education Department show that all but one area of the twelve major ones examined have fewer enrolments than four years earlier. One of the largest falls was in commerce and management related ...