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AMP won't be fifth banking pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
AMP's decision to strengthen wealth management, not banking, should it merge with AXA just made the government's task of bringing more competition in banking that much harder. Craig Dunn, AMP managing director, told ABC television yesterday that the ...

FPA defends turf, looks to HNW

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
While the Financial Planning Association (FPA) was embracing change and moving forward with a new strategic direction at its annual conference last week, it was still keen to argue the case for planners in some of the industry's most sensitive debates. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
The Australian market has received mixed, flat leads from offshore trade over the weekend, with US markets subdued following the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday. On the ASX24 at 0635 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was 21 points ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Pick your poison. There's a "Murphy's Law" event for every bear to choose from to shatter all hopes, prayers and wishes. Thanksgiving? No, thanks! As Mr. Murphy famously said, "If something can go wrong, it will!" It sure the heck did over the past ...

Nation's first solar fund launched

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
Fund manager and capital adviser, Moss Capital, has launched $100 million solar energy fund. The first of its kind in Australia, the solar fund targets commercial and industrial scale solar projects with simple and inert assets for investment, in particular ...

Politics shape investment choices: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
Investors make some of their investment decisions based on whether they support the political party in power or not, academic research shows. The School of Business finance department from University of Miami released data this month claiming that investors ...

Platforms control market, not advisers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
The country's six largest platforms control three-quarters of their market while the six largest planning groups control less than half of their market, suggesting where the power to influence the financial advice industry really lies, research shows. ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! We're all hearing this cheer growing louder by the day whether in reference to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi or the currency markets internationally. In Delhi, Australians currently lead their Commonwealth competitors ...

Rediscovering our Indian Ocean character

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
Australia needs to quickly rediscover its Indian Ocean character and not only consider itself a "Pacific" country, according to a leading investment strategist. In a wide ranging interview with the Financial Standard, Capetown-based Investec strategist ...

Russell upgrades insurance

NEWS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
Russell Investments rolled out a series of technology upgrades and new insurance solutions, which the company said would help address Australia's 'she'll be right' attitude towards insurance. The upgrades will be applied to the Russell SuperSolution ...