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AustChoice boosts tech for transparency

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
AustChoice, a platform distributed by DKN, has improved its online reporting and advanced search features. Austchoice, an AWM managed platform which is exclusively distributed by DKN, launched the enhancements to the adviser section of their website ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US and European stock markets ended last week with strong gains on promising economic data. At 0710 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 43 points at 3,775. ...

Mutual funds outperform instos

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Mutual funds are beating their institutional counterparts with the former reporting almost 30 per cent less outflows during last year. According Callan Associates, institutional asset losses were "extensive" across 17 traditional equity and fixed income ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after US stocks slumped on concerns about the level of bad loans held by banks following Bank of America's earnings report. Gold miners may gain after the precious metal advanced on Monday while ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
Wall Street retreated last night apparently shocked at reports of an unexpected fall in US retail sales. The US Commerce Department reported that retail sales fell 1.1 per cent in March with sales ex-autos declining 0.9 per cent. Expectations were for ...

Global debt volumes jump one-third

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
Global debt market volumes have increased 31 percent in the last year, driven by Asia and Japan. But rather than the surge expected from the US, combined Europe, the Middle east and Africa jumped 76 per cent while debt issuance from the Americas fell ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
The Australian share market was higher at noon, but well off its earlier gains following worse than expected jobs data. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 21.3 points, or 0.59 per cent, to 3,640.8, while the broader All Ordinaries had added ...

Green sprouts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... because we were running out of workers and had to resort to human importation. That was at 5.6 per cent unemployment! Go figure. As you sit in front of your Easter feast this Sunday, consider this. While times remain tough, there are emerging indications ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
I'll keep the change, thank you. With these words, the National Australia Bank hammered home the point of one of the G20 protesters' slogans, 'Bankers, rhyme with ?' Yesterday's decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to reduce the official ...

Super is for income, not wealth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
Super funds should start reporting their performance based on how much income they can provide to members on retirement, not on how much they return in the intervening period when the savings are locked up, said a US-based retirement expert. Don Ezra ...