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Westpac Online launches intl CFDs

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... the full value of the underlying position. "As long as the investor's account can support any variation in margin and interest incurred, a share CFD position can be held indefinitely," Staltari said. Yet actions from the Australian Securities and Investments ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... burning coals of inflation speculation. The immediate implication this is that the British central bank needs to lift interest rates to hose the inflation fire down. Financial markets now expect a rate hike as early as May. However, BOE Governor King ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... cent, or 221.28 points, to 22,899.78, said further measures to cool the mainland economy were likely following three interest rate rises in four months. The Shanghai composite index ended flat, gaining just 0.11 points to 2,899.24. Tokyo's Nikkei index ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... announcement this week of an expected half year net profit of about $11 billion. "The thing which is particularly galvanising interest in BHP is an expectation they will announce a return of capital to shareholders with that announcement in the form ...

I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... in the future should developments turn in an unfavourable direction." With the Australian economy in Goldilocks mode, interest rate settings are just right. Don' t you just heart the RBA?

Bennelong suspends SGI Global Equities fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... Bennelong Funds Management. "We're just managing the process in an orderly fashion and our priority is protecting the interest of all of our investors." Standard & Poor's has placed the Global Equities Fund 'on hold' following the termination of the ...

Self-directed investors challenge industry giants

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
Wealth managers already struggling to defend their business models against intra-fund advice and MySuper reforms are set to be confronted by even bigger challenges - this time from a new breed of product providers built solely to cater for self-directed ...

Premium China expands fixed interest portfolio

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... this year providing adviser and researcher education on Asian markets as it prepares to launch its fourth fund in fixed interest. Jonathan Wu, head of distribution and operations at the firm, said that while there has been much talk about the prospects ...

ING DIRECT launches term deposit

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... Morgan, executive director of savings at ING DIRECT. "The benefits of a term deposit are obvious - earning a great rate of interest on money which is locked away - however often people are constrained by the terms placed on them by their provider," said ...

Commission ban to widen underinsurance gap: survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... commission-based advice said, "Financial advisers under commission will be pushing sales and wouldn't have the clients' best interest in mind." Some of those who did support commissions did so for their own financial reasons than because of the value ...