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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... Peru, Cerro Verde, which produces around two per cent of the world's mined copper, expects to submit an environmental impact study for its $US3.5 billion proposed expansion project by year's end, the mine's head of operations told Reuters. INTERNATIONAL ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... equities news, the Cartoon Network New Generations Research: children's (aged 4-14) values, preferences and behavioural habits study is release. In Australia on Monday, the market plunged almost four per cent on the worst trading day in a month, with ...

Planning industry unified on commissions: AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... commission-free practice model. "I will be presenting 'Life without Commissions' with another presenter from the US. It will be a case study of what AMP did to move into commission free and how we went through the change management program." "It is about ...

Super funds signal intention to delve into overseas property

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... two years, with plans to significantly raise their exposure to global non-listed property, according to new research. The study conducted by Russell Investments, the Asian Association for Investors in non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV) and the Australian ...

Australian funds lead global asset growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... funds ranked by Towers Watson, as the super system drives superior growth to the rest of the world. According to a research study conducted by Towers Watson and US investment newspaper Pension & Investments, the assets of major Australian institutional ...

Retail super fund commissions revealed

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... Retail super fund members paid almost $3 billion in commissions during 2010, according to new Rainmaker research. The fee study, commissioned by Industry Super Network, shows that members parted with $1.9 billion in payments linked to super investments ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... volume of 19,676 contracts. Commsec market analyst Steven Daghlian said the market had pulled back slightly after an ANZ study showed local job advertisements had dropped for the second month in a row, suggesting Australia's economy was going through ...

ACSI: executive salaries soar above share value

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... while executives working for companies on the S&P/ASX 100 earned a 31% salary raise, according to new ACSI research. The study, as part of Australian Council of Super Investor's (ACSI) ten-year anniversary, looked at the influence chief executive salaries ...

UK pension liabilities bigger than the bank

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... liabilities to grow in relative size, in one case outstripping the market capitalisation of its parent bank, a Citibank study has found. Lloyds Banking Group now has pension liabilities of 26.8 billion or 115% of its 23.3 billion market capitalisation ...

CFA results are in for 2500 finance professionals

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
More than 2500 Australian investment professionals have now received their results from the June CFA Institute exams, earning global recognition and certification of their skills. The CFA Institute, an international organisation of investment professionals ...