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Beware the Budgets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
Phew! That wasn't stressing at all. In the end, the official announcement of the results of the stress test conducted on 19 of America's biggest banks became a sort of anti-climax for the equity markets. Where to from here? The verdict? Ten of the 19 ...

Praemium scales back ops

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Homegrown technology firm Praemium Limited finalised the development of its flagship products tailored to the British market but was forced to cut overheads following the UK recession. The technology firm told the ASX this week that it has reduced its ...

Cameron Stockbrokers fine-tunes team

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Cameron Stockbrokers is on the hunt for more advisers and brokers while it establishes a formal investment committee to lead the firm's investment strategy. The 30-adviser strong Cameron Stockbrokers, now led by former AMP Capital Investors head of ...

HOSTPLUS and AUSCOAL are top employers: survey

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... distinction was a meaningful and independent barometer for staff sentiment. "The feedback from the survey has already helped us plan important improvements for next year."

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was higher at noon, boosted by a positive lead from United States markets, better-than-expected jobs figures and a well-received quarterly profit result from Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate, News Corp. Official data showed ...

Vanguard enters ETFs fray

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... market to crack, which is why Bowerman said that while the initial focus of this ETF suite will be financial planners, the plan is to educate the Australian institutional market on the product.

Instinet makes a splash Down Under

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... at another stock in that sector." "The price improvement is a benefit to the [fund manager] client which then benefits the plan sponsor or the super fund because the improvement of execution goes ultimately to the performance of the fund."

AFA calls for remuneration choice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has questioned the Financial Planning Association's (FPA) role in determining how the industry is remunerated. Richard Klipin, chief executive at the AFA, said the FPA's recent announcement that its membership ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... civil servants to increase their smoking rates and has sent them tens of thousands of cigarette cartons to facilitate the plan. The Global Times China news service reported that Chen Nianzu, a member of the cigarette market supervision team in Gong'an ...

Advisers eye annuities

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
US-based advisers are increasingly looking at annuities as a strategy for their clients' rollover dollars, new research shows. A new Cerulli report on annuities and insurance shows that 20 per cent of registered investment advisers (RIAs) would consider ...