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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... $18.22 after its chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, bought more shares in the company he controls. Global shopping centre owner, Westfield Group, fell four cents to $9.88, after it turned to a more than $1 billion profit from the prior year's loss on a ...

Virgin Money launches direct life insurance product

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
Virgin Money has launched a directly available life insurance product, underpinned by TOWER Australia. Virgin Money will lend its brand, product development and customer service expertise to the alliance while TOWER Australia will provide the infrastructure ...

Self-directed investors challenge industry giants

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
Wealth managers already struggling to defend their business models against intra-fund advice and MySuper reforms are set to be confronted by even bigger challenges - this time from a new breed of product providers built solely to cater for self-directed ...

Bank lends aid to fin planning businesses

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
St.George Bank and other lenders are looking to plug the funding gap in the financial planning industry left by its rivals that have withdrawn from the market. Commonwealth Bank's decision to cease lending to financial planning businesses late last ...

IGCC launches climate risk survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
Australia/New Zealand Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) are launching an international survey to find practical tools for investors to benchmark their performance on managing climate risk The survey, to be run by global investment consulting firm ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... the shock of the Queensland floods by the second half of 2011, as coal production in the Sunshine State recovers. Airport owner MAp Group says its Brussels Airport reported a 6.7 per cent lift in earnings for calendar 2010 on flat revenues. MAp was up ...

Westpac to launch more structured products for SMSFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
Westpac has flagged plans to launch a number of structured investments over the next 12 months, starting this month with the release of self-funding instalments (SFIs) designed for SMSFs. SFIs are ASX-listed products that allow investors to buy shares ...

New chapter for ASET and FMD

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
ASET Wealth Management and FMD Group usher in 2011 as stand-alone practices, cutting ties with their previous owners and signing on to dealer group services provider Paragem. ASET Wealth, formally WalterTurnbull Financial Planning, has separated from ...

AIG sells Nan Shan stake

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... important protections for employees and agents, according to an AIG statement. For example, the agreement specifies that the new owner maintain existing compensation and benefits package for employees and retain the existing organisational and commission ...

Proposed tax rules to help instalment warrants investors

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... the income tax laws to confirm the practice of treating an investor in an instalment warrant over a listed security as the owner of the security for income tax purposes. Without these changes, investors who buy instalment warrants over unlisted securities ...