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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
The bad news is set to continue for Australian shareholders on Monday, with the share market tipped to fall following heavy losses in the US on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is in the midst of its longest streak of losses since 2004, following ...

Time for instos to embrace ETFs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
Institutional investors have been urged to embrace exchange-traded funds (ETF), as the Australian market looks to overcome the misconception that they are built for the retail market. While the US and European ETF markets are swamped with institutional ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
Australian shares were slightly lower at noon as investors sit back after Thursday's worst one-day performance in a year. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 6.7 points, or 0.15 per cent, to 4,593.7 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Convince me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... easier for the actual number to beat predictions. And if not, look out below. But you won't land with a thud, don't forget that Ben would be there to cushion your fall. And then there's Moody's. It appears to be on a roll since last month - downgrading ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
The Australian securities market has opened more than 1.5 per cent lower after gains were wiped off US markets overnight. At 1015 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 84.9 points, or 1.8 per cent, at 4,622.4, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Dark pools attract larger trades and ASIC

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
Chi-X owner, Instinet, has launched its first dark pool product for Australian equities, at a time when regulator ASIC is looking to review the trading industry. Instinet launched its Instinet BLX Australia yesterday, which will collect multiple orders ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
The global community was not in the least perturbed by the release of Australia's National Accounts that showed real GDP fell by 1.2 per cent in the March quarter. Not even the fact that the economic slump in the first three months of 2011 was bigger ...

New senior port mnger for BlackRock

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
BlackRock Investment Management has appointed a second senior portfolio manager to its Asset Allocation Alpha Fund while 'cooling its heels' as the global economy remains unclear. Evan Jones has joined BlackRock in the newly created Sydney-based role ...

Industry funds, independent platforms stand up for FOFA reforms

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
Opponents of elements of the Future of Financial Advice have come in for a drubbing from key figures in the financial services industry in the wake of intense lobbying of the independents by financial planners. Financial advisers were instructed by ...

Vision Super remains hopeful on Equip merger

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
Vision Super is confident that its merger with Equipsuper will still go ahead, despite fears that it was off after negotiations between the two hit some union hurdles, as reported by Financial Standard on May 26. "Vision Super will continue negotiations ...