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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trade overnight, with European and US markets higher, including equities and commodities. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0713 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was ...

PAS supports Paceline

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
Professional Associations Super hopes to raise $60,000 for heart research, joining the list of super funds helping to secure funds for charities affecting retirees. The Paceline ride involves 20 riders and 2 support crew traveling 1100km from Adelaide ...

Great Southern investors target BABL

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
Around 2,000 Great Southern investors launched a class action in the Federal Court to recover losses from bankers, including Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited (BABL), which lent them money to invest in the schemes. Investors have asked the Federal Court ...

Vanguard launches property ETF

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
Vanguard Investments Australia is due to launch property exchange traded funds (ETFs), a new product suite that aims to track the S&P/ASX 300 A-REIT index. The ETF is expected to start trading on the ASX from 15 October using the ticker symbol VAP ...

AMP and Bendigo Bank align

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
AMP Financial Services has formed a strategic alliance with Bendigo Bank, making AMP Flexible Lifetime Protection available across the bank's 460 branches. In a move illustrating AMP's plans to access and broaden its distribution reach of wealth solutions ...

Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
Dateline 1 July 1997. Many will remember this day, the day that the United Kingdom handed Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China. There was much trepidation and fear in the air leading up to the expiration of the UK's 99-year lease on the ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
It's a wrap! It's official! September 2010 is the man! Wall Street may have been down for the day but it produced the best September gain even before many of us were born. The S&P 500 index soared by 8.8 per cent in the month, the Dow jumped by 7.7 ...

APESB extends consultation

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
The Accounting Professional & Ethical Standards Board (APESB) has extended its consultation period on a proposal to ban members who offer financial planning services from charging asset-based fees from July next year. The Accounting Professional & Ethical ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
Smoking is bad. Just ask the Breckland Council in Norfolk. It has just announced plans to force its staff to clock off clock on when they go on ciggie breaks - and then make up for lost hours. But as they say, one man's trash is another man's stash. ...

Busting myths on alternatives: JANA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
A prominent asset consultant told an ASFA luncheon audience yesterday that just because a particular investment is listed on the market doesn't make it "right" in a portfolio, or better than its unlisted alternatives. "There's this myth that because ...