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Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... due to release its building approvals for December. The TD Securities/Melbourne Institute Monthly Inflation Gauge and the Dun and Bradstreet business expectations survey are also both expected to be released. National turnover was 297.4 million shares ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... due to release its building approvals for December. The TD Securities/Melbourne Institute Monthly Inflation Gauge and the Dun and Bradstreet business expectations survey are both expected. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market ...

Super concessions cost $32bn in 2011-12

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
The total cost of superannuation tax concessions climbed 10.5% in 2011-12 to reach a record $32.4 billion, according to the just released Tax Expenditures Statements. Superannuation tax concessions account for 29% of the $111 billion of total tax expenditures ...

Super funds post stellar returns - AREITs on top

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
Super fund returns continued their astounding recovery during December as the SelectingSuper Workplace default option index climbed to a 32-month high of 12.1%, the latest Rainmaker analysis shows. The positive result has been driven by the recent strong ...

New CFO for AMP Capital

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
Fund manager AMP Capital has found a new chief financial officer to replace Jim Dawson, who is leaving at the end of next monthAMP Capital today said that Margaret Payn would take over from Dawson from the end of February. As part of AMP Capital's senior ...

Energy Super tops extra benefits table

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
Energy Super, CareSuper and MLC MasterKey Business Super are clear standouts in a study of extra benefits offered by Personal and Workplace superannuation products, according to Rainmaker research. In its 2012 review of extra benefits and features ...

VicSuper adds new investment options

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
Victorian superannuation fund VicSuper will add two new investment options - Australian shares and term deposits, it announced today. The Australian Shares Option will be 100% invested in listed companies on the Australian Securities Exchange. VicSuper ...

VicSuper starts daily unit pricing

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
VicSuper has said its investments returns are more transparent, after the industry superannuation fund moved to daily unit pricing from 1 January this year. Daily unit pricing is widely accepted as a more transparent method of calculating and applying ...

Debt ceiling forces US Treasury to suspend TSP contribs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
Members of the US federal government and uniformed employees Thrift Savings Plan have had employer contributions into US government securities suspended as part the US Treasury's plan to avoid breaching the debt ceiling. The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) ...

SMSF popularity belies fickle performance

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
Investors who turned to DIY super funds on the promise of superior returns may be getting less than they bargained for, new Rainmaker research shows. The unprecedented growth of the SMSF sector has eclipsed regular funds in recent years. The latest ...