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LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... a 215K addition. Better, the unemployment rate now has a five (5) in front of it. Mother said it dropped to 5.9% in September - the lowest in six years - from 6.1% in the previous month. Good news for the economy... bad news for interest rates. Rate ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
The Australian stock market is slightly lower, following a mixed lead from overseas. European markets finished sharply lower overnight, with Germany's DAX 30 down two per cent amid disappointment with the European Central Bank's latest stimulus plans. ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
Draghi dropkicks markets. Super "whatever it takes" Mario has promised a lot... but delivered short. Hence, we got what we got last night. The euro reversed its decline, so did euro bond yields and European equity indices dropped. The Euro Stoxx-600 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after an almost flat end to trading in on Wall Street and a fall in metals prices. At 0651 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was down 21 points at 5,262. The stock market in ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Looks like Halloween has come early to Wall Street. Equity indices fell -- big time -- on 'The Street' right at the stroke of October. The Dow's down 1.4% (with Transport down 2.5%); the S&P 500 fell 1.3%; the Nasdaq's off 1.6% and the Russell 2000's ...

PROFILE: AMP SMSF managing director Natasha Fenech

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Natasha Fenech has a talent for coming up with strategies to solve problems and a passion for all things precise. She has combined the two during more than 24 years in financial services and, most recently, as AMP self-managed super fund (SMSF) business' ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to again open lower after Wall Street lost more than one per cent following mixed US economic data. At 0815 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was down 35 points at 5,287. Locally, in economic ...

ASIC suspends advice firm for three months

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has suspended a boutique financial planning practice for three months after it failed to comply with its compliance obligations. Protect Ensure, with offices in Brisbane and Sydney, has had ...

Van Eyk finds buyer for NZ business

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
A New Zealand-based independent financial advice firm is completing the final steps to acquire van Eyk's New Zealand business. Sources from van Eyk's administrator Moore Stephens confirmed to Financial Standard that advice firm Saturn Portfolio was ...

Misleading PDS costs NAB $10,200

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
Making potentially misleading statements in a product disclosure statement (PDS) has seen National Australia Bank (NAB) get a $10,200 penalty from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The regulator was concerned that the PDS ...