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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... overnight, which is getting near the levels we haven't seen since before the Japanese disaster." Overnight, oil prices pushed above $US105 per barrel, as traders focused on international crises in Libya and Yemen that could threaten global supplies at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... NEW YORK - Wall Street edged lower on Tuesday, ending a three-day rally that had lifted the Dow Jones industrial average above 12,000 for the first time since an earthquake hit Japan more than a week ago. The Dow dipped 17.90 points, or 0.15 per cent ...

Platforms bounce back after GFC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... financial advisers operating in Australia, up 2.6 per cent per annum in five years. This rate of growth is only marginally above the 2.2 per cent workforce growth over the same period and illustrates the adviser supply squeeze that has forced the policy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... major telecommunications deal and signs that Japan's nuclear crisis was stabilizing. The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 12,000 for the first time since a nuclear power plant in Japan failed following a massive earthquake and tsunami. In the ...

Future Fund climbs sovereign league tables

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... Future Fund, set up in 2006 with US$18 billion in seed capital, must return between 4.5 per cent and 5.5 per cent returns above the Consumer Price Index over the long term to meet its investment mandate. The report said the Future Fund's equities allocation ...

MLC advisers top benchmarking survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... median. Garvan/MLC Financial Planning and Apogee Financial Planning advisers, who came in second earning some 21 per cent above the median, closely followed this. Comparator have completed the survey at the end of the financial year for the last eight ...

Property funds urged to keep lid on gearing

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... REITs were a 'legitimate investment' once again, the gearing must be appropriate. "In unlisted we tend to think once you get above 30 per cent (gearing) the portfolio starts to behave less like property and large more leveraged asset classes," said Gavin. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... some parts of the market. "The industrials are actually not faring too badly. "Currently, most stocks are now trading well above their lows for the day after the initial panic-sell, and some value buying has come in." Resources stocks remain the worst ...

Oil outlook flips on economy flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... of the Middle East and North Africa. Equity markets fell as oil prices declined despite crude looking like it won't hold above US$100 after all, let alone US$300. It's been flipped on its back. Higher oil prices no longer threatens the global economy ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... So we up the ante. Yesterday, I quoted The Economist magazine's words that, "the oil price would need to leap, probably above its 2008 peak of almost $150 a barrel, to fell the recovery." Last night, Dr. Nouriel (doom) Roubini raised the stakes. No ...