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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open in negative territory following falls on Wall St. At 0740 AEST, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was trading down 17 points, or 0.28 per cent at 6,157. In economic news ...

AFS increases stake in Salisbury

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
AFS has acquired a 'strategic stake' The Salisbury Group (TSG) dealership, adding 30 financial planning practices to its books and expanding its Funds Under Advice (FUA) to $6 billion. The full extent of the increase is unclear, as AFS chief executive ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2007
In a bi-annual review of financial market stability the Reserve Bank of Australia has noted that while household mortgage arrears are increasing, they still remain at historically low levels. Indeed in excess of half of the owner occupiers analysed ...

ML Private Clients group partners with US community bank

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
Merrill Lynch is partnering with US community bank Carver Bancorp in New York to offer investment products and financial advice directly to residents in Harlem and Brooklyn through the installation of financial booths in bank branches that will be staffed ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open flat after US stocks were down on Friday. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0743 AEDT, the June share price index contract was up three points at 5,879. Today, the NSW Treasury will release the cost of ...

Australian M&A activity surges to record high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in Australia more than doubled last year, surging 125 per cent to $35 billion, while the number of deals jumped only by one-quarter to 490, said Thomson Financial's just released Asia-Pacific M&A Financial Advisory ...

38 per cent of US retirees like reverse mortgages

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
A survey by global consulting firm McKinsey & Co has found that US baby boomers will be forced to retire far sooner than they had hoped while having too little in retirement savings and holding unrealistic expectations about how they will finance it. ...

...meanwhile hedge fund sector returns can be synthesised

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) said most of the returns for the hedge fund sector can be explained by their asset allocation, meaning it is possible to assemble a synthetic investment strategy to mimic hedge fund sector returns. Paul Brakke, a ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open flat on a negative US lead and rising commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0711 AEDT, the March share price index contract was unchanged at 6017. On the corporate front today, explosives ...

Morningstar buys S&P managed fund data business

Listed investment research group Morningstar has acquired Standard & Poor's (S&P) mutual fund data businesses globally for $70 million ($US55 million) in cash, a move that effectively gives Morningstar a 'monopoly' on managed funds data in Australia. ...