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Asgard upgrades insurance for FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
Platform provider Asgard adds new features to its Asgard Personal Protection Package (APPP) which will help advisers in their risk-related business. APPP now provides online application and tracking tools and a Mortgage Acceptance Cover feature. "We're ...

SPAA rejigs board

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) makes key board changes, with Andrew Hamilton promoted to vice chair and Louise Biti as director. Hamilton, who previously was a director for SPAA was promoted into the new role ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
The Australian share market edged back into the black by noon despite end-of-quarter profit taking and weakness in the energy sector weighing on the market. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 5.5 points higher, by 0.11 per cent, at 4,827.7 ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
Inured or undaunted? This is the question that pops in my head watching the financial markets' reaction to the current events that normally would sap optimism out of any rational human investor. Inured? Yes Virginia, you're well aware of all the troubles ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
The Australian market is receiving clearly positive leads from offshore trading overnight, despite a series of unsettling issues running in various locations around the world. At 0810 AEDT on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was ...

S&P rates cash offerings

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
Standard & Poor's Fund Services rates 12 Australian fixed interest cash and cash enhanced offerings with Colonial First State's Wholesale Cash Fund receiving the only five-star rating. The ratings house reviewed seven cash offerings and five cash enhanced ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
Australian stocks have extended gains during the morning, with the gold and materials sector leading the broader market higher at noon. At 1210 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 41.6 points, or 0.87 per cent, at 4,797.4 points, while the broader ...

YouTube, you beauty

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
YouTube used to be the domain of teenagers and the odd adult videotaping quirky and fun stuff, but today super funds can use it for more lofty goals - and it won't cost their members a cent. Tim Martin, director at 2 Sticks Digital Marketing, said that ...

Building a compelling case for direct property

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
The ability of direct property to deliver predictable bond-like characteristics gives it an advantage over listed vehicles, said two super fund investment experts who dismissed as over-played concerns about valuation methodologies. "In a diversified ...

We shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
"We shall overcome someday; Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe, We shall overcome someday. The Lord will see us through, The Lord will see us through, The Lord will see us through someday..." Just replace "The Lord" in the lyrics above with the "The ...