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Cracks appearing in Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
Inflation, falls in retail confidence and employment wobbles are leading to housing market worries across Europe. KBC Asset Management's latest world market analysis reveals that the euro area has held up reasonably well in the past few months and even ...

DKN buys Bigger businesses

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
Listed financial services provider DKN Financial Group has snapped up Bigger Financial Planning and Bigger Accounting. According to a statement released to the Australian Securities Exchange, DKN secured the two businesses via its equity partner MQ ...

UBS launches soft com and Asia prod

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
UBS launched its Global Access Fund to provide self managed super funds and other investors exposure to the soft commodities and the emerging markets. The UBS Global Access Fund is a structured product that provides exposure to the UBS Bloomberg CMCI ...

AXA North open for non-super savings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
AXA Australia has launched North Investments, a capital guaranteed product that can be used for non-super or ordinary money investments. North Investment follows the launch of North Personal Superannuation and Pension product in November last year. ...

Saropa launches finistic

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... reasons. The platform includes photo and document storage tools including a disaster recovery centre which stores digital back-ups of birth certificates and other important personal information plus an address book. In addition, finistic includes an ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
The Australian share market was higher at noon, led by energy producers following a rise in the price of crude oil overnight to new highs. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 1.3 per cent or 57.3 points to to 5457.7, while the broader ...

Food shortages put farmers in box seat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
Farmers may at last be in the box seat with even the IMF now warning about a world food shortage, but rather than complaining about high food prices a better solution might be paying farmers reasonable prices for their produce. The world food shortage ...

LUCRF ups insurance stakes

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Industry super fund LUCRF Super has increased its death and total and permanent disablement (TPD) insurance - a decision that will see its members obtain more than double the cover at the same premium rates. Under a revived deal with ING Life effective ...

Brushing up market integrity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
Amidst recent shake-ups in securities lending, director share trading, margin loans and short selling, IFSA and ACSI have joined forces to outline their views on how market transparency and disclosure should be rendered. According to the Investment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower after US stocks slid as investors sold off financial shares on fears that funding for leveraged buyouts could dry up and hurt bank profits. Base metals were up in London. At 0702 AEDT on the Sydney ...