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Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
Australian stocks continue to fall, starting the week nearly one per cent lower after posting the biggest decline in 15 months on Friday. Before Monday, the share market had lost more than eight per cent, or more than $130 billion, in value since early ...

AFA announces new directors

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 12 OCT 2014
The AFA approved a new board of directors during the annual general meeting yesterday and announced that current AFA national president Michael Nowak will hand over to former AFA treasurer Deborah Kent. Kent will hold the role of AFA president for two ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
The Australian share market is headed for its biggest fall of the year as investors worry about weak global economic growth. The fall of almost two per cent on the Dow Jones overnight was the heaviest for 2014. If the ASX200 sustains its early falls ...

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 ...

BT Super for Life launches video member statements

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
BT Super for Life customers will now receive their annual statement in the form of a tailored video, BT has announced. BT has claimedA the video as "an Australian first" and said members would receive a two-and-a-half-minute personalised video, addressing ...

Unexpected impact of tech on US monetary policy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... strategist in BlackRock's emerging markets team said that China and other developing economies may lose out as a result of the West's access to cheap technology. "Automation makes the traditional EM model of competing based on cheap labour much more ...

Lonsec joins ASX mFund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
Lonsec has become the latest broker to join the ASX mFund Settlement Service. This means customers who use Lonsec as their online broker will now be able to access the 63 funds listed on the mFund service. Lonsec is the eighth broker to join mFund ...

Former GESB head of investments joins JANA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
National Australia Bank-owned asset consultant JANA Investment Advisers has appointed Bill Dwyer as a senior consultant. Between 2009 and 2014 Dwyer was head of investments at the $18 billion Government Employees Super Board (GESB) in Western Australia. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has improved a little from its poor start but is still trading lower, after a sharp fall on markets in the United States and Europe overnight. The market slide was generated partly by an International Monetary Fund report ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after international markets as the IMF cut the eurozone growth outlook and German industrial output slumped. At 0645 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 56 points ...