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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
The Australian dollar was higher on Tuesday, as the market waits on the results of the central bank's board meeting later in the day. At 1200 AEDT on Tuesday, the local unit was trading at 101.93 US cents, up from 101.75 cents on Monday. Since 0700 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) holds its monthly board meeting to consider, inter alia, the official interest rate, with a decision to be announced at 1430 AEDT. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases data on Australia's ...

Opposition slams opt-in policy

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... heavy-handed public policy", Rantall noted that no other profession employs an obligatory opt-in policy and called for the 'best interest' approach to take precedence. Oxley MP Bernie Ripoll argued that opt-in, be it every 12 months or every 36 months ...

FRM attracts $25m inflows

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... Australia's managing director. "FRM Sigma provides exposure to CTAs trading futures contracts over share indices, bonds, interest rates, currencies and commodities using highly automated systematic trading systems. Uncertainty defines the times and investors...need ...

SMSFs increase reliance on ETFs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
SMSFs are expected to continue raising their allocation into exchange traded funds (ETFs) as a way to ensure low-cost, long-term returns. Almost 50 per cent of financial advisers are now using or evaluating ETFs within their investment portfolios, research ...

ASFA ushers year of e-commerce

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
Electronic commerce for Australia's trillion dollar superannuation industry is now firmly in the sights of ASFA 's electronic commerce policy subcommittee. Driving the strategy is Graham Sammells, chief executive of the IQ Business group, who has just ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... policy settings as well as erecting barriers to portfolio capital inflows. This is in direct contrast to the very low interest rates and quantitative easing programs currently engaged in by developed nations' central banks. The recent rise of food and ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
Months of anxiety over rising inflation, speculation over near-term hikes in interest rates (in the developed economies) and/or actual hikes in interest rates (in emerging markets), lingering doubts over the US recovery, policy mistake and then a hard ...

GFC hangover hits Perpetual profit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... cent from the previous half to $27.5 billion. Net outflows of $1.3 billion largely from the lower-margin cash and fixed interest asset classes helped to improve revenue margins from 75 basis points to 79 basis points for the six months to December (year-on-year). ...