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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
The Australian market is expected to open firmer on Wednesday, following positive leads from offshore trading overnight. At 0738 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 31 points higher at 4,826 points. In economics news ...

Funds to talk insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
Superannuation funds could help solve Australia's underinsurance problem if they communicated more with members, AIA Australia's chief executive told the 2011 Life Insurance Conference in Sydney this week. Damien Green, head of the Australian arm of ...

ASIC call to improve planner education

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... competency certification exam for all new and existing financial advisers who provide Tier 1 financial advice at the entry stage. One year supervision for all new financial advisers following entry stage and a mandatory knowledge update review every ...

HSBC targets super funds with China access

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... number of Australian institutional mandates. "We do it through consultants and through industry super funds mainly at this stage although we are talking to corporate and government funds but because we are a growth business we're focusing on the larger ...

Funds price ratings downgrades

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... the change, a portfolio manager said yesterday. Moody's Investor Services downgraded its outlook on Qantas debt - the next stage down is a ratings review, then a ratings downgrade. Moody's also changed its outlook on Air New Zealand from 'stable' to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... Mr Saffer said the miner's announcement late on Wednesday that its planned Olympic Dam expansion had reached feasbility stage also was pushing the stock higher on Thursday. Rio Tinto firmed 22 cents to $84.50. Australia's major lenders traded lower ...

New index launched to track super knowledge

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
One third of all Australians don't know what their employer pays into their super, according to research released at the Conference of Major Super Funds on the Gold Coast. The results of the first study in a biennial series, Tuning into Super, were ...

Robertson and O'Sullivan receive top honours

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... said. After a succession of colleagues congratulated O'Sullivan on his win in a video montage, the chairman took to the stage and thanked those that made it an "absolute privilege and joy" to serve on the board. "This award means a great deal to me," ...

AMP AXA name final price

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
AXA Pacific Holdings minority shareholders to receive $6.43 per share in the upcoming merge with AMP as the final stages of the process are completed. AXA PH informed its shareholders that it would receive this amount based on a trade of 0.73 AMP shares ...

Frontier to appoint CEO

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... related functions from me and a couple of other people here," said Trafford-Walker. The recruitment process is at an early stage. "They are not at the point when they're shortlisting or anything like that but it's really just exploring the options. They're ...