The Melbourne Newsroom

The University of Melbourne is leading a long-term study into the health and wellbeing of community members affected by the 2009 Victorian bushfires.

It's difficult to compare the performance of savings accounts in banks to superannuation funds, says Warren McKeown from the Department of Accounting & Business Information Systems.  

Despite better than expected profit reporting by Australia's major companies, the direction of the Australian sharemarket is still cloudy, says Dr Les Coleman.  "In the last few months the stockmarket reached a low in March but has rebounded almost 50% since then.  In fact its gone back about 40% of the way to its previous high in 2007."