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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... stocks. The FTSE 100 index ended up 178.6 points, at 6,493.8, as several investment houses revised their calls on UK interest rates, giving recently battered bank stocks a boost. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 7,944.77 points, up 135.83 or 1.74 per ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... market opened lower today unable to shrug off the continued decline of Wall Street and lower base metal prices, despite interest rates staying on hold. At 1012 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 32.7 points at 6498.1, while the All Ordinaries ...

NZ planners regs improve fee transparency

... of Financial Advisers (AFA), have also urged members to be more transparent with fees and disclose likely conflicts-of-interest on top of what is already required of them to disclose by law. Michelle Baltazar

Take governance seriously or lose investor support

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... [trying to have] non-binding federal elections," he said. Fiani said despite institutional investors taking stronger interest in what they invest in, this involvement is normally very constructive. But when company boards act to penalise shareholders ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... Performance of Services Index for November is due. The Reserve Bank of Australia will announce whether it has decided to adjust interest rates. The Australian Bureau of Statistics national accounts data for the September quarter is released. On the corporate ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... early next week as it awaits the release of key economic data. Today, the Reserve Bank of Australia is meeting to discuss interest rates. There could be an interest rate cut in the US early next week, Mr Vaughan said. "Falling metal prices last night ...

MGI launches Queen Street Partners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... Partners will be dealing in the very specialised area of emerging managers, it has already generated a great deal of interest from large superannuation funds and institutional investors," he said. Meanwhile, Vaughan said Queen Street Partners created ...

Markets not governments set interest rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... economy should be managed. This is because the influx of liquidity provided by these players is so significant it moves interest rates regardless of central banks policy settings. "The impact and visibility of this quartet exceed its relative size, despite ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... August. HONG KONG - Blue chips ended flat after racking up hefty gains in the last three sessions, but hopes for another US interest rate cut in December lifted property shares, with Sun Hung Kai Properties hitting a record. The benchmark Hang Seng Index ...

Transparency in advice is key: Tucker

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... who is paid commissions has done wrong, what we want is to ensure is where commissions are involved it's done in the interest of the customer," he said. He said the industry needed to move away from a commission based service and develop and transparent ...