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Gen Y risks high fees

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
Gen Y-ers are more likely to pay higher super fund fees during their lifetime because of their job-hopping lifestyle, according to legalsuper. legalsuper chief executive, Andrew Proebstl, said many employees particularly those in the Gen Y bracket could ...

Calliva suspends new loans to SMSFs

THE SHEET  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
Specialist lender Calliva Group has been forced to suspend new applications for its superannuation fund loan product, SuperAccess, after being told by its funder RBS that its facility would not be renewed. Calliva chief executive Vince Scully said RBS ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
The Australian equities market was down at midday, following modest losses on Wall Street overnight, and as investors digested differing broker earnings outlooks for the big banks. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 54.9 points, or ...

Quiet Market Activity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
Financial market activity was relatively quiet overnight. In the US, the Conference Board reported that the leading index fell to 0.1 percent in June, matching the markets' expectations. This is consistent with weak US growth over the next six to nine ...

Energy investments surge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
Regardless of the finer debating points on what the ideal emission trading system should look like, investors are already flocking to alternative energy. New investment into the sector jumped US$148 billion in 2007, up 60 per cent over 2006, noted a ...

This Week's Market Movers (21-25 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
The week ahead will be a busy one, giving financial markets plenty of information to discern the near-term outlook for growth and inflation. Australia: The Australian Bureau of Statistics release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for the June ...

Social banking on the rise

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Social banking platforms will capture 10 per cent of the worldwide retail lending and financial planning market in two years time, according to Gartner. The term, social banking includes trends such as green practices, social entrepreneurship and peer ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
The Australian stock market was over one per cent lower at noon, led by the big banks, after US stocks slipped on lingering concerns about the health of the financial system. Energy stocks and some of the gold miners were bright spots on the market ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
Market Movers Overnight 15 July "Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water." This was the movie JAWS 2's tagline back in 1978 and it aptly applies to the global financial markets current predicament. It may not have been a complete ...

KiwiSaver to drive fin literacy

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Gen X and Y Kiwis will be much more financially savvy than their predecessors because of the KiwiSaver scheme, predicts BT Funds Management. The New Zealand arm of BT Funds Management claims that in less than 20 years, an increasing number of young ...