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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to continue the week's gains, following another positive day on Wall Street on corporate earnings reports. At 0730 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 31 points higher ...

Berry Fin Services ready for next growth phase

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
Berry Financial Services managing director and FPA chair, Julie Berry, said ComCorp's 40 per cent stake gives her company more firepower to grow its client base, particularly in the credit union sector. MMC Contrarian subsidiary, ComCorp Financial Advice ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring ...

CS appoints head of asset management Aus

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
Credit Suisse has appointed Filo Sedillo as head of asset management Australia. Sedillo previously worked at Citigroup as head of alternative investments for Australia and New Zealand. He also worked in senior institutional client management roles in ...

LGsuper expands options

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... estate when paying out death benefits. But things have now changed following amendments to the trust deed - effective 1 April - that allowed the board to consider any person who meets the definition of "dependant" under superannuation legislation. "This ...

SMSF trustee group closes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
The Self Managed Superannuation Member's Association (SMSMA), which represents the interests of trustees, has closed up shop after launching less than two years ago. The SMSMA has closed and its membership has been given the opportunity to join the ...

A lose-lose proposition

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
If you can't buy 'em, jail 'em! Is China going back to its old ways? Wall Street ended flat overnight. And so it should there was really not much news out for it to react to one or another. The G8 meeting in Italy produced nothing new. Their communique ...

No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
Stop! Take a deep breath. Now count to ten. There is no need to hit the SELL button. Many would have woken up to the bad news on Wall Street this morning. The Dow fell by 2.6 per cent overnight and the S&P closed 2.9 per cent lower. Or for extra effect ...

Hedge funds lag index returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
Global hedge funds trailed behind key global indices as markets staged a recovery although long term figures depict a different picture, according to the latest hedge fund research. The global hedge fund index, domiciled in US dollars, returned 3.5 ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
Be scared...be very scared. Yes, the spooks were out again overnight, sending many investors out of Wall Street. Have the bulls been sucked in? Have the bulls become greater fools? While we were sleeping, the S&P 500 tumbled by 3.1 per cent, taking ...