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AFA Foundation and Future2 raise funds

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
Two financial planning foundations have joined forces for the first time to donate $10,000 to the Friedrich Ataxia Research Association (FARA). The Association of Financial Advisers Foundation (AFA Foundation) and Future2, the Foundation of the Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... the outlook as political unrest in Egypt and the Middle East prompted caution. The Bank of England's decision to keep interest rates on hold was expected, although analysts said they believed the vote must have been close given concerns over rising inflation. ...

SMSFs pour more into property

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... is expected to grow as a means to guarantee income and preserve capital, while there has also been plenty of offshore interest, not least from Asia but also Germany and Switzerland. SMSFs account for around 75 per cent of investment in Charter Hall's ...

Diamond Asset Advisors arrive in Aus

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... at relatively lower prices. Like gold, diamonds can act as an inflation-hedge and are, in fact, relatively immune to interest rate and stockmarket swings. The group itself was established to develop and manage investment opportunities in the asset, researching ...

Henderson Maxwell launches DIY planning guide

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
Sam Henderson, chief executive and senior financial planner with Henderson Maxwell, has launched a DIY financial planning book designed to reach those who don't have a financial planner and bring more credit to the industry which he said has received ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... economies. In the emerging ones, they've been trying to shoo evil inflation away as if almost forever. China, for one, lifted interest rates again just yesterday. Many claim that it's the stupid Fed that's responsible as QE money flows into emerging ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... 0.11 per cent and Milan finished down 0.22 per cent. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly fell Wednesday after China raised interest rates for the third time in four months, causing nervousness around the region. Shanghai fell 0.89 per cent, or 24.89 points ...

Wall Street does an Abbott

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... 3.86 points higher, by 0.14 per cent, at 2,787.85. China said after its market closed on Tuesday that it would raise interest rates for the third time since October. The country's economic boom has resulted in higher prices, forcing some poor families ...

Cashed-up China eyes US investments

... one way from Europe and the US into Asia, but signs are emerging that US investment opportunities are attracting Asian interest. Stirring the most interest appears to be US infrastructure, said Liu Chuanzhi, head of IT group Lenova who said that the ...