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MLC MasterKey fees cut, new features

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
MLC's MasterKey Fundamentals platform has been reshaped with new investment options and the cutting of fees, a move the wealth manager said will benefit clients and advisers. The MasterKey Fundamentals platform, which has been in operation since 2006 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open lower, following the overnight lead of Wall Street and the European markets. Investors appear cautious, tracking Italian and Greek political developments as the eurozone debt crisis rumbles into Spain ...

ASX's PureMatch gets ASIC green light

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
ASIC has given regulatory clearance for the launch of ASX PureMatch, the new high speed/low latency order book for trading the most liquid ASX-listed stocks and domestic exchange traded funds (ETFs). The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has now ...

Second best month of the year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... consumers look to be turning jolly too. The Thomson Reuters/Uni of Michigan consumer sentiment index rose to 64.2 in early November - the highest since June - against 60.9 in October and expectations for a 61.5 reading. Better, the expectations component ...

Weekend worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
The weekend is coming - another worry weekend. For about 3 weeks running, European policymakers have kept us hanging and guessing about what lies ahead the Monday after. Consider this: We spent the 22-23 October weekend worrying over France and Germany's ...

ASX names former ASIC head new Corp Governance chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
Alan Cameron AO has been appointed chair of the ASX Corporate Governance Council, replacing retiring chair of 16 years and ASX's executive general manager, regulatory and public policy, Malcolm Starr. The Corporate Governance Council is a collection ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
The Australian share market is set to open higher after Wall Street rose on news Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would resign once a new budget was passed. At 0829 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 56 ...

ASIC: New regulations for responsible entities

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
ASIC has released new financial requirements for responsible entities of managed investment schemes, including minimum capital requirements, in its latest regulatory guide that wants to align entities with investor interests. In updated versions of ...

Legg Mason appoints Senior Research Analyst

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
Legg Mason Australian Equities has appointed Andrew Chambers as senior research analyst covering listed property, infrastructure and utilities. Chambers will report to head of research Michael Slack and will provide research support to portfolio manager ...

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
We've had the "risk on risk off" trade, we've had the "hope" trade and now we have the "headline" trade. And this you and I can plainly see on the intra-day ticks of last night's trading activity. Major equity markets in Asia and most of Europe -- Italy ...