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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... cent, to 3,752.21 points. TOKYO - Dealers stayed on the sidelines while they await the announcement of the cabinet by new prime minister Yukio Hatoyama. The falling value of the yen continues to be a positive factor for exporters. The benchmark Nikkei-225 ...

How to survive the next market outlier

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... year, there were one too many cases of investors breaking not one but both rules "simultaneously", as was the case with Opes Prime, Westpoint and, the mother of all financial fraud in recent history, Madoff's feeder funds. That's why it's prime time ...

PI insurers face $300m in claims

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
... to three years - stemming primarily from advisers linked with collapsed firms such as Westpoint, Storm Financial and Opes Prime. "We've got about five underwriters who are willing to insure this market," she said. "Those who are holding Storm Financial... ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... founder Peter Irvine will address an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce young business forum in sydney. New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Bill English is in Sydney to speak at an Australian Business Economist function on New Zealand's Road to Recovery. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... addresses the University of Western Australia's Institute of Advanced Studies on energy, minerals and climate change. The Opes Prime cases returns to court in Melbourne. On Monday, the Australian share market closed higher, with heavyweights BHP Billiton ...

CHOICE wants commissions banned

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... launched an inquiry three months ago to review financial products and services following the collapse of Storm Financial, Opes Prime and Westpoint. The consumer body is also calling on the public to write to them about their experiences with their financial ...

Superannuation wins in Cabinet reshuffle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... resignation of the accident prone Joel Fitzgibbon as Minister of Defence last week was just the trigger, it took only two days for Prime Minister Rudd to announce changes so sweeping that today twenty government ministers were required at Government ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... Europe's main stock markets slid in cautious trading, with London dragged down by the banking sector and worries over British Prime Minister Gordon Brown battling to stay in power. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed down 33.34 points, or ...

Charged for no AFSL

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... potential investments. During the relevant period Button was a director of Button Building Consultants Pty Ltd (now known as Prime Research & Marketing Pty Ltd); Shepherd was the sole director and officer of Pinnacle Enterprises International Pty Ltd ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... already cheapened by the global financial crisis - would be even cheaper to non-Americans. It has already exported the sub-prime meltdown and the credit crisis. Now America's economic problems are also being shipped abroad. The flipside is that other ...