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LUCRF makes history

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
The superannuation industry doesn't often talk about its history but 2008 marks a century since the introduction of age pensions and thirty years since the birth of LUCRF, Australia's first modern super fund. The revolution began a century ago when ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher today after US equities gained overnight on reports Dow Chemical will takeover a rival firm and a better-than-expected sales report from retail titan Wal-Mart. Gains in the gold and oil price overnight ...

Market Movers (10 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release June Labour Force data at 11:30 AM today. Labour market surveys released earlier this week point to continuing weakness on the jobs front. The ANZ job ads survey released last Monday showed the ...

Swedish pension lessons for Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Senator Nick Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law, has suggested Australia look to Sweden's nationalised pension system for a model of how to operate a low-cost superannuation system. But is this the right comparison? The centrally ...

Aviva cuts super to pension admin time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Aviva Australia improved its online adviser software, n-link, to enable financial planners to set up pension accounts and allow clients to receive payments in three days, a fraction of the time needed on other platforms. Previously, financial advisers ...

Investors influence credit ratings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Credit rating agencies are bowing to the pressure of investors, issuers, and underwriters to change their ratings, a new survey shows. A recent member opinion poll conducted by the CFA Institute found that 11 per cent of those surveyed witnessed a CRA ...

Market Movers Overnight: Bernanke's speech

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Last night US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke before the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Forum in Arlington, Virginia, where he stressed that the Fed remains committed to financial stability and that the US Central Bank may extend ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher today after US equities gained as the oil price fell and the Federal Reserve chairman indicated the central bank was likely to extend emergency loans to investment firms. Mining and energy stocks ...

Challenger recycles capital

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Less than a year ago Challenger Financial Services Group raised more than $260 million from a couple of optimistic, offshore investors, one of whom paid what now looks like a fortune for nothing more than an option to buy shares in the company. Now ...

Market Movers Overnight (8 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Economic data releases overnight give further confirmation that the slowdown in the United States is spreading to other major world economies. German industrial production fell by 2.4 per cent in May from the previous month - the largest drop in nine ...