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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... increased 36.43 (1.01 per cent) to 3,649.04. Investors were cheered by August double-digit auto sales gains from GM, Toyota, Ford and Chrysler. LONDON - European stocks rose despite the airlines sector flying into turbulence after Irish no-frills carrier ...

Study shows dark pools benefit markets at low volumes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
Low levels of trading in dark pools actually improve market quality, according to a new study by Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC). The independent academic centre for capital market research's findings follow concerns from some traders ...

Melbourne-based BDM joins Morningstar

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Morningstar Australasia has appointed Guy Callaghan as Melbourne-based business development manager to further enhance the firm's sales and client relationship management efforts. "We're working with an increasing number of dealer groups, brokers, institutions ...

Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... predictions, lower 'em rates now. The latest round of soft data releases - business conditions, consumer sentiment, job ads, Ford Motors job cuts announcement - certainly give meat to predictions for more job losses down the track. But you have to ask ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
... goods rose three per cent in February, topping expectations of a 2.6 per cent increase. Also on Tuesday, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler reported their best US monthly sales performances since 2007. GM cited "a strengthening economy and new products" ...

Small shareholders eclipsed by instos

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
Large institutions including Australian superannuation funds and offshore investors are increasing their allocation to listed Australian companies while small shareholders have slashed their portfolios, a study for the Australian Investor Relations ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013
... Department said applications rose 4,000 to 371,000, the most in five weeks. The previous week's total was revised lower. Ford was among the gainers after the company doubled its quarterly dividend to 10 cents, just nine months after paying its first ...

New head of wealth advice at Perpetual

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
Mark Smith has taken up the role of group executive of Perpetual Private, the wealth advice business of Perpetual Limited. Perpetual Private includes the Private Client, Fiduciary, Fordham and Philanthropy offerings. Smith was appointed earlier in the ...

Quality could replace China volume-play

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... and were "still predicting growth." Summing up what he'd seen at the EGO factory, as well as other operations visited, Mark Ford of Ford + Scott financial planning, said: "It's interesting that wherever we go, there's an obvious emphasis on quality." ...

Paragem signs ex-Securitor practice

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Independent Australian Financial Services License (AFSL) provider Paragem has signed Ford + Scott Financial Planning Pty Ltd, after the Tasmanian-based business resigned from Westpac's Securitor AFSL. "We've enjoyed a long and successful relationship ...