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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... and the euro hit a one-week US dollar low after an S&P warning of a eurozone downgrade overshadowed news of a Franco-German plan to save the single currency. The shock S&P announcement came as European Union leaders prepared for a two-day summit which ...

PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... finally (hopefully) focus the minds of European authorities to, once and for all, come up with a credible concerted action plan to reverse the rot they're in. =========================================== Meet Ben Ong, Financial Standard's Chief Economist ...

Managed accounts get FOFA boost

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
Managed Discretionary Accounts are reaping some benefits from the introduction of FOFA as advisers turn to new investment vehicles, recording $150 million of inflows during the five months to November 30 for IAS. Investment Administration Services (IAS) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... buoyed by signs that Europe was taking steps to contain the growing sovereign debt crisis. Earlier, stocks rose on a promised plan to restore long term confidence in the euro. The leaders of France and Germany, the two strongest economic powers in the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... up 51 cents at $37.16. Uranium miners were higher after Labor's national conference backed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plan to remove the party platform's ban on uranium exports to India. Paladin Energy was up 5.5 cents, or 3.3 per cent, at $1.725 ...

Challenger dominates annuity market

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... of the annuity with sales of the retirement product closing in on $2 billion for this year alone, according to research by Plan For Life, with Challenger dominating the space. According to the latest figures, the total number of Australian annuity sales ...

Energy Super turns to YouTube

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
Energy Super is attempting to go viral with the launch of short animated YouTube videos, targeting its Gen Y super members. As a three video series, the animated shorts explore salary sacrificing, early super contributions and the benefits for an average ...

Nikko cancels $2bn IPO

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
Tyndall Asset Management's owner, Nikko Asset Management, has cancelled a $2 billion share offering due to global market volatility. Announced after a board meeting, Nikko has cancelled a previously resolved secondary offering of shares and suspended ...

She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... reserve requirement ratio - starting this very day. Help from news out of the Eurozone that... wait for it... there is another plan in the works. I just hope that the Europeans have by now learnt their lesson and this time deliver something - anything ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... action in a new climate of budget discipline, and said he would meet Merkel on Monday to agree upon and announce a joint plan to take to the EU summit on December 8 and 9. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares rose 0.2 per cent on Friday, adding to the previous ...