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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
The Australian share market was over two per cent lower at noon, led by the banks, after US stocks dropped overnight on renewed concerns about the economy. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 102.9 points, or 2.07 per cent, to 4,876.6, while ...

IML overhauls staff retention strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
Investors Mutual Limited (IML) revamped its investment team's equity package as part of an overall review designed to retain a consistent team of analysts. Anton Tagliaferro, IML managing director and investment director, said the firm reviewed its ...

Raise your fixed income bet: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
Financial planners should reassess their clients' exposure to the fixed income sector after a van Eyk review found diversified income managers are primed to take advantage of investment opportunities in credit securities. The firm's diversified income ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market is likely to fall today after equities in the US slumped overnight on renewed concerns about the economy, as reports showed retail sales and employment are weakening. At 0732 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September ...

Broken hearts from empty pockets

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
Forget environmental or social concerns. A new study found that the uncertain economic climate is the single largest negative influence on the average Australian's sense of wellbeing. According to the latest Australian Unity Wellbeing Index - which ...

HSBC launches alt fund services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
The lure of the country's superannuation dollars will push more global hedge funds to target Australian investors, prompting HSBC to open a specialist fund services arm locally ahead of the wave of hedge fund activity. Previously, HSBC has provided ...

Aurora Trust delivers 13pc

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
Investors keen to stay in the black despite the market doldrums should look no further than Aurora's Sandringham Dividend Income trust. Sandringham's low double-digit returns may have been ho-hum during the bull years but this year's 12.76 per cent ...

Grove opens term deposit shop

BY STAFF  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
Asset consultant Grove Research and Advisory has launched an online term deposit shop as the flight to cash continues. Initially, the service will provide wholesale investors with comparable daily rates from Citibank, BankWest, Investec and Rabobank. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market may rise slightly today after US equities were mixed but little changed overnight and commodities, too, were mixed, with oil and gold falling and copper gaining. At 0707 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September ...

Frontier's $97bn FUA in safe hands

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
Investment consultants like to keep their performance numbers strictly for clients' eyes only but Frontier, which advises on $97 billion of superannuation assets, broke convention when it publicly revealed its results this year - the first time it's ...