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Super hopes turn sour for retiring boomers

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DO NOT count on superannuation to provide the life of Riley when you retire. Despite the sharemarket recovery last year, the average balanced super fund has returned only 5.51 per cent a year in the past decade, or about 2.2 per cent above inflation. This is below their target of 3 to 3.5
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Greece Says Call for Aid Would Send ‘Worst Signal’ (Update2)

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said he can’t call for outside aid as his government struggles to cut the European Union’s largest budget deficit. Papaconstantinou has so far failed to convince investors that Greece can push the deficit below the

Greece Says Call for Aid Would Send ‘Worst Signal’ (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

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Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said he can’t call for outside aid as his government struggles to cut the European Union’s largest budget deficit. Papaconstantinou has so far failed to convince investors that Greece can push the deficit below
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ASX | Australian share market | Stocks drop in wake of late US falls

Close Australian shares have closed lower, trimming their losses on the back of gains in miners, but sentiment remained wary as investors fret over sovereign debt troubles in the euro zone. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 16.3 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 4505.1,

Toyota to Recall Prius Hybrid Cars in Japan Today (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

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The company will file a recall of the Prius and other models to Japan’s Transport Ministry at 1:20 p.m. in Tokyo, the ministry said in an e-mailed statement, without providing details. Toyota will brief the press about measures it plans to take regarding the Prius in Japan and overseas at
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Sharemarket down 1% at noon

AAP At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 43.9 points, or 0.97 per cent, at 4,477.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 43.5 points, or 0.96 per cent, to 4,495.3 points. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 31 points

Eurozone concerns drag shares down 1pc

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At 12pm AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 43.9 points, or 0.97 per cent, at 4477.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 43.5 points, or 0.96 per cent, to 4495.3 points. EL & C Baillieu Stockbroking director Richard Morrow said the market had a firm
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Pimco’s El-Erian Favors Brazil’s Bonds, Chinese Yuan (Update4)

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Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Mohamed A. El-Erian , whose company runs the world’s biggest mutual fund, favors investments in emerging markets on expectations they’ll outpace developed economies in growth and wealth. Brazilian sovereign bonds and Chinese yuan non-deliverable forwards are
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Pimco’s El-Erian Favors Brazil’s Bonds, Chinese Yuan (Update4) - Bloomberg.com

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Brazilian sovereign bonds and Chinese yuan non-deliverable forwards are attractive, El-Erian, co-chief investment officer at Pacific Investment Management Co. , said today in Sydney in a Bloomberg Television interview. Greece needs outside help as it tackles the European Union’s largest
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Pimco’s El-Erian Favors Brazil’s Bonds, Chinese Yuan (Update3) - Bloomberg.com

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Brazilian sovereign bonds and Chinese yuan non-deliverable forwards are attractive, El-Erian, co-chief investment officer at Pacific Investment Management Co. , said today in Sydney in a Bloomberg Television interview. Greece needs outside help as it tackles the European Union’s largest
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