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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... provides an anecdotal description of economic conditions, is due at 2 pm and could give clues about the Fed's next move on interest rates. LONDON - Britain's leading shares fell 1.37 per cent after briefly turning positive midway through the session ...

CFS adds muscle to distribution team

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
Colonial First State has embarked on the next phase of its specialist distribution strategy, recently announcing a staff boost to its distribution team. "About year ago, we agreed to implement a specialist distribution approach to our business. As products ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... in coming days," Mr James. "Here, investors and analysts are focusing on the potential for the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates again, so the caution still prevails in the market and certainly offers potential for investors to pore over the stocks ...

Super advice for $199

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
Westpac throws a fresh challenge to the industry on making advice affordable after it introduced a low cost superannuation advice service this month. In an effort to help Australians with low superannuation balances receive financial advice, Westpac ...

Avanteos starts year with rebate resolutions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... Generation Wholesale Global Sustainability Fund to its platform. "This fund has a good track record and its received a lot of interest from investors, so we feel it's a great direction to move," Stevens said.

GM takes sustainability mainstream

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... also reinforces how arguments against it are now largely a spent force which in-turn should lead to even more investor interest in the topic notwithstanding it can still be quite fuzzy to define what we mean by the term. "This whole area is beset by ...

SMSFs lead charge

... suit a more customised type of super fund such as SMSFs whereas traditionally, the focus has been on how to attract the interest of retail, industry, public sector and corporate funds. But managing your own super fund comes with risks, responsibilities ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
... 50 cents to $55.39 after it announced it would open its first branch in Viet Nam. Westpac, which raised its mortgage interest rates on Friday, lost 27 cents to $25.73, and ANZ was seven cents lower at $25.65. National Australia Bank found 44 cents to ...

NGS to welcome new chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
The $3 billion Non-Government School (NGS) Super fund is considering prospective chief executives next week after former head Colin McGuinness, who transformed the fund, resigned last month. Interim chief executive John McCrory said he expects the board ...

ING PEAL pledges $10m to Wolseley

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
... per cent in the last two years, at a time when European investors have decreased their stakes in LBOs. The continued interest in private equity deals rides on the back of expected returns of 11.1 per cent from the sector, as opposed to a lower 9.8 per ...