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NASDAQ cancels over 250 trades

NASDAQ RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
NASDAQ is coordinating the other US stock exchanges to cancel all trades that contributed to the market plunge overnight. The Dow Jones Industrial index fell 9 per cent or close to 1,000 points overnight. The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to post a huge decline at the start of Friday's trading day, following a horror night on offshore markets as Wall Street shed more than three per cent and commodities prices went backwards. At 0757 AEST on the ...

Cooper wants collectables banned from SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
SMSFs should be banned from including collectables and 'personal use' assets into their fund and will be subject to tougher penalties if they break the rules, according to the preliminary recommendations of the Cooper Review released today.In the SMSF ...

UniSuper restructures management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
The $25 billion UniSuper has overhauled the management structure across its advice, services, business and technology teams - with three executive managers leaving the fund. Following a recent review of business processes and accountabilities within ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
What's wrong with Wall Street this time? There must be something in the water when solid corporate earnings result still gets it down. According to Bloomberg, more than 80 per cent of companies in the S&P 500 that have already reported their first quarter ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
The Australian market has flat to negative leads from trading offshore overnight, with Wall Street marginally higher, but European and Asian markets generally lower. Precious and base metals were lower in New York, although oil was slightly higher. ...

Securitor awards top practices and advisers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
Westpac-owned dealer group Securitor caps its annual conference this month with the handing of awards to their best practices and financial advisers in 2009. Brad Cooper, chief executive of BT Financial Group, the wealth management business of Westpac ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
The Australian market has received strongly positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with most major markets comfortably higher, including oil and precious and base metals. At 0700 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index ...

Cooper Review unveils MySuper, officially

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
The public could soon have access to a new superannuation product called 'MySuper', which is free from trailing commissions, charges no contribution fees and is much easier to understand, under proposals outlined by the Cooper Review today. The preliminary ...

Less regulation, more action: Hartsuyker

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
Axe the constraints, boost innovation - the shadow minister for superannuation, Luke Hartsuyker, said the Government should be encouraging innovative investment strategies from trustees, rather than limiting investors to standard investment choices. ...