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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
The Australian stock market has started the week on a positive note thanks to stronger than expected Chinese manufacturing data. Commonwealth Bank market analyst Steven Daghlian said the market received a boost from the release of official Chinese manufacturing ...

BT chief appointed as FSC board co-deputy chairman

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... Unity Investments; Robin Burns - MD, Equity Trustees Limited; Andrew Hagger - group executive, NAB Wealth and CEO MLC Limited; Ben Heap - MD, UBS Global Asset Management (Australia); John James - MD and Chairman of Vanguard investments; Brett Jollie ...

CFS adds Tyndall Australian share fund to FirstWrap

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
Tyndall AM's Tyndall Australian Share Concentrated Fund has been added to Colonial First State's FirstWrap platform, as advisers see clients focus on total returns and become increasingly more risk aware. The fund was launched to the retail market in ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... Texas Republican and head of the Joint Economics Committee Kevin Brady posed this question upon US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke - to the future of financial markets everywhere. It's been nearly four months that you, I and Irene have been scouring ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower after disappointing consumer spending news helped pull US stocks lower in a quiet end to the market's worst month in more than a year. At 0805 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract ...

AMP adds four NZ advice firms to network

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
AMP has grown its presence in New Zealand, with four kiwi financial planning practises joining its AdviceFirst network. Majority-owned by the AMP Group, AdviceFirst has recently completed acquisitions of John Grogan Insurances Ltd, Advice 4 U, Bob Edwards ...

In estate planning, beware of remarried clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
Clients who have a second, third or even fourth marriage are the most complicated to deal with when it comes to estate planning and this is something advisers should take into consideration. When working on the wills of this kind of clients, advisers ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... negatives that Uncle Sam had to navigate in the second quarter.A Bet you've forgotten now, don't you? Have no fear, there's always Ben Bernanke (little balding Ben, that is) to remind you.A There was the China slowdown, eurozone crisis - courtesy of ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower despite gains on Wall Street which rose as fears of an imminent strike against Syria receded. An upgrade to US second-quarter economic growth, also helped US markets. It came in at an annual rate of 2.5 ...

PIS could face class action over "inadequate" advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... in September 2011. Investors have approached Slater & Gordon, which has begun an investigation. The practice's group leader Ben Whitwell said that it is likely that most investors were introduced to the investment on the advice of authorised representatives ...