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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
The Australian share market fell almost 1.5 per cent by noon after the release of softer than expected manufacturing figures from China. It came after US stocks plunged on Monday amid renewed worries about the eurozone debt crisis, which claimed its ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
The Australian dollar surged to an eight-week high after European leaders surprised markets and reached a breakthrough to resolve the eurozone debt crisis. Eurozone leaders announced on Thursday (European time) a plan to shore up their bailout facility ...

MacMillan wins AFA Adviser of the Year

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
West Australian financial planner, Troy MacMillan, has taken out the top gong at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) annual conference and been named Adviser of the Year for 2011. The award, sponsored by Zurich Financial Services Australia ...

Plan B appoints new group executive, product and distribution

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
Boutique wealth management firm Plan B Group Holdings has appointed Paul Cramer as group executive, product and distribution, as part of its overall expansion strategy. Based in Perth, Cramer will lead the firm in wealth management (advice) product ...

Somethin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
Quiet please, EU meeting in progress. Yes Virginia, they're still at it. Two years on and Europe's back at the negotiating table trying to dig their way out of the hole first dug by Greece in October 2009. One begins to wonder how they were able consummate ...

AMP University Challenge winner named

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
AMP's first University Challenge has named Michelle Walker, a bachelor of business student from La Trobe University, its 2011 winner. Created by AMP and supported by the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Financial Planning Academic Forum, the ...

Disagreeing to agree

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
No mas! I have had enough, and enough is too much. If you're scratching your heads over the current goings-on in the financial markets, you're not alone. For how can we, mere code-breakers of policy pronouncements, divine the future when policy-makers ...

AMP appoints former AXA heads to merged business

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
AMP Financial Services has made a number of appointments to its key business divisions that see former AXA employees assume senior positions. The appointments come in banking and wealth management products, strategic marketing and sales and wealth protection ...

Dream on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
"Dreams that everything will be resolved and dealt with by next Monday cannot be fulfilled." Dream on. With these words, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble crushed financial market optimism that everything will be smooth sailing by this time ...

US regulator spotlights high frequency trades

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
High frequency traders in the US and UK could soon be made to register their trading systems as regulators look to control the practice which is often accused of exacerbating stock market volatility. The US' Commodity Futures Trading Commission was ...