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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... Australian stock market is lower as falls in the banking sector offset a better day for mining stocks. Wall Street finished little changed overnight as concerns about the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence and weak global inflation dampened ...

FEATURE: The new financiers of infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... tended to focus on equity rather than debt. And the reasons for that are easy to guess: infrastructure debt inhabits a little understood world. There is a lot of money to be made if you have the considerable expertise required, and a lot of money to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... session on Wall Street. The September share price index futures contract is up three points at 5,550. US stocks have finished little changed as concerns about the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence and weak global inflation data weighed on ...

Liberalise economy or prepare for war, warns economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... crises such as the ones he claims we are currently in. He singled out the Reserve Bank of Australia, saying: "The RBA is a little bit schizophrenic. You can't have it both ways: if you cheapen your currency you don't get growth, you get inflation." He ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... S&P 500 and Nasdaq all ended more than half a per cent lower overnight after the closely-watched Apple product launch did little to excite investors. The local market followed suit, being further weighed down by a string of companies, including Woolworths ...

Penalties for fund managers too lenient

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... imposed on those responsible for the fraud is disproportionately low," Rajapakse wrote in her conclusion. "In fact, there is little disincentive to prevent these cases of fraud from re-occurring. There is a heightened need for legislative changes to ...

Advisers must attend ethics classes, say ISA and AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... lawyers and doctors, all of which require several years of study. Financial advisers meanwhile it said could qualify "in as little as three days." Consumer activist group CHOICE also submitted to the PJC, arguing along similar lines to AIST and ISA ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
... investors snap up bargains after four consecutive days of falls. "It's probably as expected, which is to finally see a little bit of support considering the sell-off that we've seen," IG market strategist Evan Lucas said. "There's some contrarians out ...

Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... fees have been at the centre of public debate since David Murray's Financial System Inquiry (FSI) flagged that there is little fee-based competition and that "fees appear high by international standards." But the Rainmaker 2014 Super Fund Fee Survey ...

No drama at the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... selected quotes from the RBA's August Monetary Policy Statement: "Australia's trading partner growth is forecast to be a little above its long-run average in 2014 and 2015. The slight strengthening in growth compared with recent years reflects the expectation ...