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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. Most key market indices were lower, but oil and copper were higher. On the ASX 24 at 0822 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was five points lower at 4,883. ...

AustralianSuper posts solid quarter

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
AustralianSuper has posted a solid set of performance numbers across its investment options in the past six months, with all of the fund's pre-mixed options, bar one, beating their respective benchmarks. The super fund has posted its investment returns ...

Value Partners top Asia fund tables

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
Value Partners, the fund manager underpinning Sydney-based Premium China Fund, has once again scored top rankings in the Thomson Reuters Extel Surveys. The fifth annual survey results asked executives of several hundred firms including brokers, broking ...

Synchron taps online advice for growth

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
Hot on the tail of its successful iPad-based financial planning conference, dealer group Synchron inks a growth strategy underpinned by the 'category killer'. The group, which currently has 176 advisers, plans to have 280 advisers by the end of 2013. ...

Platypus wins court case

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
A Victorian Supreme Court Justice ruled in favour of Platypus Asset Management yesterday, in its dispute with a former employee. Philip Pepe was employed as a senior analyst at Platypus from April 2006 to October 2007. In August 2008 he filed a claim ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... latest tally takes the annual growth in retail sales up by 7.7 per cent in November following equally robust gains in October (up 8.0 per cent) and September (up 7.7 per cent). It also marked the 13th straight month of gains. This is good news and confirms ...

IBM Super upgrades online presence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
IBM Super fund has redesigned its website with new features, following the trend of super funds upgrading their technology as members become more tech savvy. In what could be called a late start when compared to other super funds, the new-look IBM Super ...

Changes ahead for WA govt super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
A report commissioned by the WA Treasurer into the GESB demutualisation said the proposal was not in members interests and recommends major changes to WA public sector superannuation arrangements. In July 2009, the WA Treasurer appointed Rod Whithear ...

Court rejects Great Southern statement of claim

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
Great Southern investors face another roadblock after the Victorian Supreme Court decided not to allow Macpherson+Kelley to file its latest statement of claim in the class action against Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. This decision follows an earlier decision ...

Green light for global equities surge: Bell Potter

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
Using history as his guide, Bell Potter's Peter Quinton says global equities could rise by more than 60 per cent over the next three years - and if his prediction proves accurate, it could mean that new highs for markets are on the horizon. After studying ...