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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher following a strong lead from Wall Street. In London, base metal prices were mostly weaker. At 0717 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was up 202 points ...

Financial Synergy grows SMSF team

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... as a BDM, and will report to FS general manager of administration and investments, Robert McKinlay. Previously a BDM with Leap Legal Software, Grainger has garnered experience working in the legal sector, providing strategic software and service solutions ...

English FX specialist turns local

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
Uk-based foreign exchange and payments specialist, Caxton FX, has made the leap into the Australian forex market - throwing a fresh challenge to banking institutions that have traditionally been the dominant players in the forex sector. The company ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Australian stocks have recovered considerably from yesterday's alarming global market slump, boosted by a surprise, emergency 75 basis points interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve. Global investors braced themselves for another big day of losses ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
... last weekend continued to climb. The market was supported also by strength in energy stocks, buoyed by a near five per cent leap in the oil price, and gold stocks, although Lihir Gold fell on a production downgrade. Qantas jumped over four per cent on ...

ING Australia buys FSP Group

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
ING Australia becomes the third largest planning group in the country when it bought the FSP Group, adding a 145-adviser network with over $2.5 billion FUA to the fold in one swoop. The group sidesteps the industry's long-running problem on skills shortage ...

Transparency in advice is key: Tucker

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... develop and transparent fee model. "The issue is whether or not a client can see the fee and control it, I don't think is a big leap to move from commissions to fees," said Tucker. "The client should agree with their adviser upfront what they're going ...

Bombay Stock Exchange leads governance reforms

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The Indian stock market has grown six-fold in four years and current sentiment is for it to keep going, but a big question for Australian investors is whether its governance mechanisms can absorb the explosive growth and maintain market integrity. Raising ...

Syncsoft reboots with Microsoft

... interface. The platform is also database agnostic, requires no deployment and is fully instrumented. "All of this is a huge leap forward for business developers because they will be able to focus solely on delivering customer solutions," said Page. Co-founder ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
Australian shares continued to trade in the black at noon, following a strong lead from the US overnight as oil prices rose to a record high of more than $US97 a barrel and gold hit a 27-year high. At 1201 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 55.3 ...