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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower today after US stocks fell overnight on signs that company profits are being hit by the decline in consumer spending. At 0810 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures ...

ING to develop retirement security products

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
ING Australia chief executive, Harry Stout, is assessing overseas efforts to combat longevity risk while also battling against the erosion of retirement savings in bad markets to develop better retirement security products for super fund members. Speaking ...

GFC pushes ASIC to let funds provide limited advice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
Super funds trying to respond to floods of member enquiries due to the fall-out from the GFC has pushed ASIC to grant temporary permission allowing them to provide limited advice to their fund members. The advice they will be allowed to give, however ...

Sisyphian challenge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
Like the mythical king Sisyphus, fiscal and monetary authorities continue to push a huge boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down. But while Sisyphus rolled the same rock over and over, the global boulder authorities are trying to push over ...

MTAA Super is fund of the year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
MTAA Super has been awarded SelectingSuper's Fund of the Year by the Rainmaker Group beating finalists that included other star performers and market innovators HESTA Super, AustralianSuper, Host-Plus and CBUS. MTAA Super achieved its award after being ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket was stronger at noon, up more than two per cent, driven by China's massive economic stimulus plan, which has boosted appetite among local investors for commodity based stocks. Also, the Reserve Bank of Australia has indicated ...

High school fin literacy for Aussies

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Insurance and super will soon be explained to high school students via a new government and ASIC-led financial literacy resource. Senator Nick Sherry, minister of superannuation and corporate law and Tony D'Aloisio, Australian Securities and Investments ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket remained firmly in the red at noon, dragged down by the miners after sharply lower base metal prices in London and a more than five per cent drop on Wall Street overnight on heightened concerns of a US recession. At 1210 AEDT ...

Sunsuper pumps $100m into Trinity

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
The $13 billion industry fund Sunsuper has invested $100 million into the unlisted Trinity Property Trust. "The idea [of this investment] is that there will be plenty of opportunities coming up in the next year because of distressed sellers," said David ...

First home buyers tap $21k bonus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
If website clicks are anything to go by, then the latest data from X Inc Finance suggests first home buyers are wading back to the market thanks to new government incentives. Jennifer Nielsen, chief executive of Loan Market Group, which includes X Inc ...