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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... per cent, or 13.13 points, to 19,811.80. Shanghai jumped 0.85 per cent, or 17.44 points, to 2,073.15 as investors cheered a plan by blue-chip Baoshan Iron and Steel to buy back its shares, raising hopes of similar moves by other companies, dealers said. ...

Ord Minnett conspired to take us over: Wilson HTM notifies court

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... placed on advisers by Ord Minnett, who said that Wilson HTM would fail if they didn't leave the company. It was a deliberate plan to take over Wilson HTM without paying for it, "By Stealth," Coppin told Financial Standard this morning. Wilson HTM is ...

AMP launches group insurance offering

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... group insurance offering brings together the features from the stand-alone AMP and AXA group products, such as a minimum plan size of 10 and relaxing underwriting requirement for larger plans. Bergin explained that offering a low minimum plan size means ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

AMP to take full ownership of Futuro

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
AMP has outlined plans to take full ownership of independently owned Futuro Financial Services (FFS) and merge the advice business with its own dealer group Charter Financial Planning by 2017. In March, AMP acquired a 10% stake in the advice business ...

ANZ CEO sells shares to fund debt, tax

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
ANZ chief executive officer Michael Smith has sold $10.8 million worth of shares in the bank. In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Friday, ANZ said that Smith sold the shares "to fund a forthcoming income tax payment and to ...

BetaShares expands coverage

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
BetaShares has significantly expanded its distribution coverage since the beginning of 2012 with its ETFs now available on a much larger list of dealer group approved product lists and on multiple platform menus. This year there have been 54 counts ...

We're revolutionising financial planning: Mortgage Choice

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
Mortgage Choice is set to expand into financial planning by opening up 60 franchises by 2015 to sit along side its 380 countrywide home loan businesses. The mortgage broking group plans to be Australia's fastest growing branded financial planning organisation ...

Deferred tax impacts IOOF profit

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... managing director Christopher Kelaher. IOOF reaffirmed its commitment to a proposed acquisition of Perth-based advice business Plan B, which is subject to 90% shareholder acceptance, when it announced its result. The Plan B acquisition is a clear strategic ...

IAS renews partnership with SS&C

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
Australian managed accounts provider, Investment Administration Services (IAS) has renewed its affiliation with global financial services software provider, SS&C Technologies through the use of the firm's Global Wealth Platform to support its managed ...