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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
The bad news is set to continue for Australian shareholders on Monday, with the share market tipped to fall following heavy losses in the US on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is in the midst of its longest streak of losses since 2004, following ...

Dark pools attract larger trades and ASIC

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
Chi-X owner, Instinet, has launched its first dark pool product for Australian equities, at a time when regulator ASIC is looking to review the trading industry. Instinet launched its Instinet BLX Australia yesterday, which will collect multiple orders ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
The global community was not in the least perturbed by the release of Australia's National Accounts that showed real GDP fell by 1.2 per cent in the March quarter. Not even the fact that the economic slump in the first three months of 2011 was bigger ...

Software speeds up SMSF creation

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
Financial advisers and accountants can set up new self-managed super funds in under ten minutes with SMSF software which allows trustees to invest in anything from shares to bull semen. OneStepSMSF, a joint project between technology provider BGL and ...

Industry funds, independent platforms stand up for FOFA reforms

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
Opponents of elements of the Future of Financial Advice have come in for a drubbing from key figures in the financial services industry in the wake of intense lobbying of the independents by financial planners. Financial advisers were instructed by ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
The Australian dollar was lower against most major currencies on Wednesday morning, weighed down by weak trade figures released on Tuesday. At 0700 (AEST) on Wednesday, the Australian dollar was trading at 106.72 US cents, down from 107.03 cents on ...

Dropping home ownership rates leave retirement funding hole

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
Falling home ownership rates mean a quarter of all future retirees may not own their own home, undermining key assumptions of previous retirement affordability studies, REST Industry Super said yesterday. The worrying figures come from research tabled ...

GDP down no reason to frown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
It's all over the news, the Statistician will soon confirm that the Australian economy stumbled in the first quarter of 2011. All eyes would be glued to monitors everywhere when the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report on the National Accounts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open marginally stronger on Tuesday, despite the absence of significant leads from offshore trading overnight. On the ASX 24 at 0640 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 14 points higher at 4,676. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
The Australian market may gain on Monday after US equity and most commodity markets rose on Friday. Trading may be subdued because of public holidays in the UK and US on Monday. At 0753 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract ...