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Signposts to high yield

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
Russell Australia High Dividend Index's top ten holdings was dominated by financial stocks but property trusts are emerging as attractive high-yield stocks. The Russell Australia High Dividend Index (RAHDI) includes Australian blue-chip companies with ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... resignation of Ray Ozzie, MSFT's chief software architect and Bill Gate's nominated successor. There was bad news for banks. Bank of America shares sold off on reports that PIMCO, BlackRock and the NY Federal Reserve Bank were seeking to force the BoA ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... the December share price index futures contract was 37 points lower at 4,632 points. In economic news on Wednesday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor (financial stability) Malcolm Edey addresses the Finsia Financial Services conference ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was higher at noon, as the market digested the minutes of the latest Reserve Bank monetary policy meeting, released late on Tuesday morning. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 18 points, or 0.39 per cent ...

Aussie fund managers outside top 100

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... management marketplace. This could imply further consolidation locally in the years ahead. At 116th on the list, Macquarie Bank Group ranks as Australia's largest manager, with US$111 billion in assets under management (AUM), a 31 per cent increase on ...

NTAA challenge planners to cut fees

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... some planners guilty of 'fee gouging'. Andrew Gardiner, spokesman for the association, quoted the case example of a major bank's guidelines on upfront and ongoing fees where a client with $1.5 million to invest would be charged an upfront fee of $26,460 ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
You can almost hear the Wall Street's collective hallelujahs after the US Federal Reserve reported an unexpected fall in industrial production. And no, that is not a typo. Wall Street was actually happy that it was disappointed. Huh? Yes, you read correctly. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... December share price index futures contract was 41 points higher at 4,696 points. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) publishes the minutes of its October 5 monetary policy meeting. In equities news, ANZ Banking Group Ltd ...

Lower fees or lose advantage: ACTU

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
The ACTU has called on industry funds to keep lowering their fees or risk losing one of their key competitive advantages over retail funds. Tim Lyons, assistant secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions said one of the top challenges facing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... was down 19 cents at $23.62, CBA dropping 37 cents to $50.73 and Westpac had lost 19 cents to $22.74. "You had a lot of the bank dragging the Dow down on these foreclosures concerns, which are sort of rocking the banking sector there," IG Markets market ...