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Good news from bad stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... what we've witnessed so far. Then he'll be in more trouble. This Friday, we might hear the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Ben Shalom Bernanke do a rendition of Frankie Valli's "Grease". "I solve my problems and I see the light We gotta plug and think ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... cents on Tuesday. Since 1700 (AEST) on Tuesday, the local unit traded between 104.58 US cents and 105.34 cents. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke will give a speech to a central bank symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday (US time). At last year's Jackson ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... the current year. He said many investors were trading in anticipation of positive news from the US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, who is scheduled to speak at an annual conference of the world's central bankers on Saturday AEST. "We're getting ...

AIA Australia creates Asia role, new CEO

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
Life insurance group AIA Australia has appointed chief executive Damien Green to a Hong Kong-based role where he will grow AIA Group business across the region. Green has held the reins at AIA Australia since November 2009 and will start the newly created ...

Time-based and opt-in preferred: MSI survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
Financial planners need to work on a time-based fees system if they want to make their business clients happy with opt-in also pegged as a "good idea", according to the MSI Global Alliance August survey. The survey, of around 570 Australian business ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... time you look at the rear view mirror and thought, I shoulda', woulda', coulda' but I didn't. Deym! Now we're back again. Big Ben's about to open his mouth and the scaremongers are putting the "no more options" word in it. It'll certainly be disastrous ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... electronics and other manufactured goods. Mr Ive said the market this week would focus on a speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to a central bank symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday night, Australian time. In Australia on Tuesday ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
Australian shares were up at noon on the back of positive earning reports and takeover announcements, despite opening lower following a weak lead from Wall Street. At 1200 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 56.2 points, or 1.4 per ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... rating agency Standard & Poor's." If the slow patch we've seen over the past few months were going to be "temporary" as Big Ben thought, it would no longer be if the financial markets continue to behave the way they do. Negative expectations have a way ...

Clime gains three-star rating for Aus equities fund

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
Clime Asset Management has gained a three-star maiden rating for its Clime Australian Value Fund from Standard & Poor's, putting it on the radar for financial advisers for the first time. Darren Katz, head of distribution at Clime, said the Australian ...