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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
The Australian dollar powered to a three-week high above 106 US cents by noon, buoyed by strength in equity markets as risk sentiment firmed following a speech by the US Federal Reserve chairman. At 1200 AEST on Monday, the Australian dollar was trading ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
The Australian market looks set to open higher if it follows Friday's international lead, despite closing lower on Friday. At 0736 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was up 21 points at 4,200. In economic news on Monday ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... improvement on last year, and saying it expected the rate of decline in Australia's beer market to moderate in the coming months. Origin Energy Ltd was 35 cents higher at $13.83 after it announced its profit fell by 70 per cent in 2010/11, but said it ...

Time-based and opt-in preferred: MSI survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
Financial planners need to work on a time-based fees system if they want to make their business clients happy with opt-in also pegged as a "good idea", according to the MSI Global Alliance August survey. The survey, of around 570 Australian business ...

Customisable, original, scalable, networked: the next advice paradigm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
The next wave of advisory firms will be provide clients with customisable advice that is original, scalable and network connected, say US advice industry researchers. In their paper, The Consumer Revolution - Surviving and Thriving in a Time of Tectonic ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... breather from recent upward swings. Among energy stocks, Woodside Petroleum fell 72 cents, or 1.9 per cent, to $37.04, while Origin Energy lost eight cents to $14.29. "Overall the market has recovered over the past two weeks and it's now just a period ...

Principal Global Investors UK move

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
Principal Global Investors has bought a majority stake in London-based global equity specialist, Origin Asset Management, as the firm concentrates its global equity investment strategies on targeting local retail and institutional investors. The 74% ...

ASIC warns CFD providers on margin calls, disclosure

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission warned that contracts-for-difference were high-risk products as it released new disclosure benchmarks for providers today. Greg Medcraft, ASIC chairman, told a press conference in Sydney that there ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... cent, to $70.13. Energy stocks lost ground, with Woodside down 58 cents, at $35.75, Santos down 33 cents at $11.57, and Origin down nine cents at $13.85. Telstra was up four cents at $2.87, after the company said its annual profit fell by 17 per cent ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... the S&P/ASX20, just one stock - gold miner Newcrest - was in positive territory, with the steepest decline experienced by Origin Energy, down 5.79 per cent, or 77 cents, at $12.54. Overall, falls outnumbered rises by more than 13 to one. Macquarie Private ...