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Fiducian acquisition expands planning business

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... on the Australian Stock Exchange, Fiducian Financial Services has a network of 62 non-bank aligned advisers across the country. The company said it is "actively seeking" quality financial planning businesses in line with its growth strategy. "I see this ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... Mongolia. Dealers in the resources space would be focusing on the release of China's manufacturing data this week as the country returns to trading after the lunar New Year holiday, said brokers. Gold miners got a boost after a bout of risk aversion ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... traded. The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday (US time) pledged to keep interest rates low until at least 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic recovery. City Index chief market analyst Peter Esho said the Australian market, which was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... markets rose on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve pledged to keep interest rates low until late 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic recovery. The Fed cut rates to near zero in December 2008 during the financial crisis and has held ...

Australian economic fundamentals solid: Swan

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... from global economic difficulty, the Asia Pacific region was "much healthier" than its global counterparts. "While no country can expect to be immune from the global threats identified by the IMF, Australia has solid growth, unemployment at half the ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... rigid ideology combine to cause a collapse in global demand". "This is a defining moment... It is not about saving any one country or region. It is about saving the world from a downward economic spiral." In its latest World Economic Outlook report ...

AMP: FOFA needs a rigorous stocktake

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... would have a detrimental effect on customers and advisers. AMP, which has the largest aligned dealership network in the country, also maintained that the legislation in its current form, would cost the advice industry 'hundreds of millions of dollars". ...

So far so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... markets of recently downgraded France and Italy are up 5.1% and 3.6%, respectively. But what takes the cake is Greece - the country that is on the verge of default, the country that is not only in recession but in a deep one -- its Athex Composite Index ...

Aus can deal with another GFC: Shorten

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... growth and world trade have slowed sharply. " While not directly referencing Australia, the report made it clear that no country was immune from difficulty. "High-income country growth is now expected to come in at 1.4 percent in and 2 percent in 2013 ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... World Bank's grim prediction that, "An escalation of the [European] crisis would spare no one. Developed and developing country growth rates could fall by as much or more than in 2008-09." Deloitte Access Economics may have been sucked in again -- just ...