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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Australian shares have stayed in positive territory as hopes for a debt deal with Greece buoyed European shares and rising commodity prices boosted miners and energy companies. Energy stocks led the push higher, adding 0.7 per cent after news that the ...

FOFA heats up competition for planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Financial planners may be squeezed out of the industry as competition heats up with the impending entry of accountants, stockbrokers and super funds, according to CoreData, with consolidation a likely outcome as smaller practices move to cut costs and ...

ASIC clears up infrastructure rules

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Infrastructure entities and investors now have a clearer understanding of the risks associated with investing in infrastructure after ASIC released new disclosure benchmarks and principles for infrastructure entities today. The Australian Securities ...

Target setting works for super funds

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Target setting can offer rewards for super funds according to new research from bond fund manager PIMCO, which assessed strategies used by not for profit defined benefit and defined contribution default fund options. The research paper, Defined Contribution ...

SMSFs shift focus to property

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
SMSF trustees are slowly embracing property investments for fund investment strategies after the passing of limited recourse borrowing rules, although cash still holds allocation majority. According to information released in the latest Multiport SMSF ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
It was another day on the financial markets, another one of those happy days. Yes Virginia, commodity markets are up, equity markets are up - even for those recently credit rating snipped Eurozone bourses - and bond yields are lower - even for those ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher. At 0800 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 16 points at 4,208. No major economic news is expected on Tuesday. In equities news, Newcrest Mining and Aquarius Platinum give ...

BofA: Fund managers appetite for risk growing

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
Only 3% of global fund managers believe the world economy will be worse off after 2012, according to a BofA Merrill Lynch fund manager survey, although geopolitical risks still rate highly as a concern. In the BofA Merrill Lynch survey of fund managers ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Australian shares have added one per cent in early trading as successful debt auctions in Europe and more positive bank earnings in the US buoy optimism. Energy and resources jumped after yields on Spanish bonds contracted sharply in its latest bond ...

Demand for term deposits on the rise

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Risk appetites are resulting in increased demand for the stable returns of term deposits within super and pension portfolios, according to MLC. The MLC MasterKey Fundamentals platform has today reported nearly $400 million in funds under administration ...