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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... crisis weighed on the equities markets amid speculation that Athens will need an additional bailout. Eurozone and European Union finance ministers are expected to discuss Greece at meetings on Monday and Tuesday. The Labor Department reported its consumer ...

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. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... ($A129 million) surplus posted in March and a Dow Jones forecast for $US1 billion ($A929 million) in April. The European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank (ECB) began an audit of finances and reforms in Greece to determine ...

Ministers backed to raise super contribution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Christian Super is supporting the decision by the Baptist Union of NSW and ACT to raise the superannuation levy for Ministers of Religion from 9 per cent to 11 per cent. There have been concerns that due to unique taxation arrangements to help churches ...

High level super talks on now

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Top superannuation fund chiefs are today locked in high-level talks with Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten on a range of issues including raising the superannuation guarantee. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation ...

Ansett trustees make a move

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... unresolved claims were not disadvantaged by the need to wind up the former funds. In April 2008, the Australian Services Union (ASU) said that some $47 million of Ansett super remained unclaimed by around 1,959 former Ansett employees whose super was ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... done that! There was news over the weekend that Libya's Qaddafi has agreed to a ceasefire plan presented by the African Union. Of course he would, as long as he still gets to sit on his throne. The Libyan rebels rejected any ceasefire that doesn't include ...

Bank reaches for industry fund members

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
ME Bank is seeking to increase its customer base of industry fund and union members by marketing a new home loan directly through the work place. The bank is owned by 33 industry superannuation funds including AustralianSuper and HESTA, giving it access ...

Big mandates, big risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... sovereign wealth fund, Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), had much of its US$70 billion in assets frozen by the US, European Union and UK. According to the 2011 Preqin Sovereign Wealth Fund Review, FM Capital Partners managed capital for the LIA and ...

Credit unions and super funds show same merger trends

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... December 2010, there were 104." "I currently know of 10 that are in merger discussions." McGuirk's Adelaide-based credit union Australian Central joined forces with Savings & Loans in 2009 to create Australia's second largest credit union, Australian ...