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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower, following in Wall Street's downward lead after a report showing a drop in small business sentiment and disappointing sales data. At 0812 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was ...

New laws target promoters of early release schemes

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
The senate has passed a bill allowing promoters of illegal early release schemes to be prosecuted. The bill is targeted at individuals or organisations that charge a fee for aiding clients in illegally accessing their superannuation before the preservation ...

FICAP's "Who Wants to be a RockStar" sells out

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
The annual FICAP "Who Wants to be a RockStar" event has sold out with record support led by platinum sponsors ANZ, Challenger, Colonial First State and Perpetual. The event to be held at the Beresford Hotel in Sydney on Thursday 20 March sees members ...

RBS posts soaring losses, pays $1m bonuses

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
Royal Bank of Scotland's losses soared to almost STG9 billion ($A16.82 billion) last year, the state-rescued lender has announced, while its decision to pay millions in bonuses has triggered a political backlash. Net losses announced on Thursday widened ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... Australian dollar, and as global demand for commodities falls". (SMH) Sounds really 'iffy' to me. I would be an international rock star IF I can play a musical instrument, IF I can hold a tune, IF I were 6 inches taller, IF I can breakdance, IF... But ...

Annual global dividends pass $1 trillion for first time

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... investors' returns," Henderson chief executive Andrew Formica said. "The search for income is more than just a response to rock bottom interest rates in recent years. It marks a generational shift as ageing populations must increasingly rely less on ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open sharply lower after Wall Street plunged as lacklustre reports on Chinese and US manufacturing activity added to concerns about economic growth and emerging-market economies. At 0845 AEDT on Tuesday, the March ...

Shale gas revolution could be worldwide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... have nowhere to put it." He said that the US and Canada were not alone in having huge deposits of natural gas trapped in rock deposits, which have only recently become accessible through the controversial method known as hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking'. ...

Santa Claus is comin' to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013

MyState appoints new chairman

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
... a director of MyState Financial and subsidiary companies in September 2009. Hampton was also appointed a director of The Rock Building Society Limited in December 2011. He sits on the board of Australian Pharmaceutical Industries, the Van Diemen's Land ...