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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
Australian shares were higher at noon as investors took the opportunity to buy stocks at attractive prices, following recent heavy falls on the market. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 20.3 points, or 0.45 per cent, at 4,505.2, while ...

Advance Asian equity fund on hold as personnel changes

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has put the Advance Asian Equity Wholesale Fund 'on hold' after a spate of departures from its manager, Lion Global Investors (LGI). Janet Liem, LGI's head of Asia-pacific equities team has left the company, as has Tan ...

Paragem secures new planning licensee

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
Boutique financial advisory practice PWK Private Wealth Advisers has joined the Paragem Wholesale Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL), taking the dealer group's total assets under advice to $1.3 billion. Paragem now has 13 practices under its ...

Pollies clash over SG

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
Politicians are exchanging words over the move to raise superannuation guarantee (SG) from 9 to 12 per cent with assistant treasurer Bill Shorten calling the Coalition's attitude towards superannuation "belligerent". Speaking at a union's investment ...

Plum adds super lawyer to board

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
Former chair of the Law Council of Australia Superannuation Committee, Peggy Haines, has joined the Plum Superannuation Fund and the Plum Pooled Superannuation Trust as a board trustee. Haines, a senior superannuation and financial services lawyer ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
In case you missed it, former US Federal Reserve Alan 'el maestro' Greenspan has just declared Greece dead - well, almost. No way out. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Greenspan declared that the "chances of Greece not defaulting are very ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
The Australian stock market has received a mostly positive lead from weekend offshore trading, after Wall Street closed higher and gold and silver prices settled firmer. But copper and oil prices finished lower. At 0739 AEST, the September share price ...

Australian Unity possible merger

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
Australian Unity and Big Sky Credit Union are exploring a merger option that would potentially create a 310,000 member strong union. Having signed a heads of agreement, the organisations senior executives and directors have formed an evaluation committee ...

van Eyk calls for pay for ratings disclosure

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
In its future of financial advice (FOFA) submission, investment research house, van Eyk has called for the disclosure of the pay for ratings research model, not currently integrated into the proposed reforms. "As part of the arrangement where a client ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
The Australian share market opened higher on Friday after two of the major United States indices rose, but worries continued that Greece's debt troubles could spread. At 1015 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 23.9 points, or 0.53 ...