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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... gaining from fresh signs of strength in the US economy. The S&P added 5.86 points (0.29 per cent) to hit 1,992.37, four points above the previous record on July 24. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 60.36 (0.36 per cent) to 17,039.49, while the ...

SPAA launches pilot program for "complex" issues

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... pre-eminent position in the market," SPAA chief executive Andrea Slattery said. The specialist program is a service over and above the current membership and will incur an additional fee. "Our specialist members have been requesting such a program and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... Rockwell Global Capital. Home Depot jumped 5.6 per cent after second-quarter earnings came in at $US1.52 per share, seven cents above analyst expectations. The home-improvement chain raised its 2014 profit forecast, citing strong sales. LONDON - Europe's ...

Ditch retail prospectuses in some cases, say leading lawyers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... said: "Do we need a 'safe harbour' provision where providers can offer basic product information at low compliance risk?" Above all the panel agreed that retail investors should not be restricted from investing in some products but that they should have ...

Mercer reveals confronting life expectancy research

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... likely to live to 88 years; 35% are likely to live to 91; 20% are expected to live to 94; and 5% will live to 99 years - well above the average life expectancy of 84.1 for men. Women can expect even longer lives with 50% of female white collar workers ...

Law firm rubbishes Grattan fee report

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... on the presence of economic rent, not on costs. Rent is the concept used by economists to describe the quantum of profit above that required to compensate for the risk undertaken. The appropriate question, then, is whether there are participants in the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... 9,092.60, while in Paris the CAC 40 slid 0.74 per cent to 4,174.36 points. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended just above the flatline at 6,689.08 points, compared with Thursday's close. "A feeling of complacency had been creeping back into investor ...

UBS Dynamic Alpha Strategy wins large insto mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... generate returns through active asset and currency allocation, and this strategy has delivered a 5.74% gross return per annum above the UBS Bank bill index, over the last five years. This has been achieved with around half the volatility of equity markets ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
"Happy days are here again The skies above are clear again So let's sing a song of cheer again Happy days are here again." -- Lou Levin It appears to be working... calling invasion, incursions, strikes or what have you's "humanitarian missions" works. ...

Digital advice to jumpstart $5.6 trillion land grab

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... between aligned and non-aligned financial advisers but rather between the dispensable advisers (those who cannot offer value above and beyond digital advice and bespoke insurance) and the unmissable (those who are comfortable with the lightning pace ...