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Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
The share market is more than 1% weaker as investors worry about sluggish global growth and the Ebola crisis in west Africa. All sectors are suffering losses as Asian share markets follow the downward trajectory of US and European markets. Weaker commodity ...

Cyber risks for local wealth sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
Growth of cyber risks has prompted insurance brokers Marsh to appoint a specialist national manager focused on the growing risk product class. The broking group has just announced that Susan Elias will join them as National Manager - Cyber, in the company's ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
Say it again, Homer. "I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!" For those who've just tuned in, Wall Street was going, even sending the S&P 500 index up by 1.3% overnight, until it slipped... on oil. The action du' nuit is captured in Bloomberg's ...

One third of risk advisers non-compliant, ASIC says

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
Financial advisers specialising in life insurance must lift the quality of advice and ensure that the interests of their clients are given priority, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has said. ASIC reviewed more than 200 advice ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher following overnight gains on Wall St where the US Federal Reserve hinted it would not raise interest rates. Steady interest rates have a negative effect on the US dollar and bond yields, and increase the ...

TH Real Estate buys up Brisbane shopping centre

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
TIAA Henderson Real Estate (TH Real Estate) has made its first foray into the Australian retail property space, with an agreement to take a 75% stake in Mt Ommaney Centre, a regional shopping centre in Brisbane. The property will be acquired as part ...

Active fund failure shown in new data

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
The vast majority of Australian active managed funds have under-performed their respective benchmark across virtually all sectors of the market over one, three and five years, the latest data from S&P Dow Jones Indices shows. The worst offending sector ...

PROFILE: AMP SMSF managing director Natasha Fenech

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Natasha Fenech has a talent for coming up with strategies to solve problems and a passion for all things precise. She has combined the two during more than 24 years in financial services and, most recently, as AMP self-managed super fund (SMSF) business' ...

OneVue re-signs IMAP sponsorship

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
Wholesale superannuation services provider OneVue has renewed its sponsorship of the Institute of Managed Account Providers (IMAP). OneVue head of platform strategy, sales and service David Storm said that the range and complexity of products in the ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014