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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
After a flat start the Australian share market was in the red at noon, as falling banking stocks capped gains in the resources sector. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 33 points, or 0.91 per cent, at 3,598.6, while the broader All ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
'Tis the season to be jolly. Christmas has arrived early for equity investors. Or has it? Stock markets around the world rallied between 5 and 8 per cent yesterday and overnight, punctuated by the Dow's peeping above the 9,000 mark in intra-day trade ...

Frontier hires analyst

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
Frontier Investment Consulting hired hedge fund researcher, Ching Lee as an analyst. Lee previously worked at Shadforth Financial Group/Haintz Financial Services as an analyst and prior that appointment as a research assistant at Monash University analysing ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
It's official. The US is - or has been - in recession since December 2007. Now what? The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that America's economy entered recession one year ago, despite not ...

Passport to profit

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
Securitor is taking the profitability of its 462 planners' business seriously - the dealer group has launched a new "Passport to Profit" program to fine-tune four areas of its members' business structures to improve their bottom lines. Neil Younger ...

PDS notices to go online: ASIC

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
ASIC is ramping up its presence in the web sphere with new legislations requiring all notifications about a product disclosure statement to be lodged online starting early next year. From 1 January 2009 notifications to ASIC about a PDS will need to ...

Smith leaves GSJBW property fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
The Goldman Sachs JBWere Property Securities Wholesale fund was downgraded by Standard & Poor's Fund Services from four to three stars after the fund's co-portfolio manager, Andrew Smith left the team. Smith's departure means Tim Hannon, head of real ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
Wall Street was at first content to wait while the G20 Generals fiddle but Citigroup's announcement of a 53,000 reduction in its workforce brought home the point that Main Street is roasting. After initially fluctuating between both sides of zero, the ...

Securitor academy set for Feb opening

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
Asgard Wealth Solution's planning division, Securitor is launching its first paraplanning academy workshop in February. The paraplanning academy is a blend of self-study distance learning and two three-day face-to-face workshops. Participants will learn ...

ASIC lifts shorting ban on non-financials

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is lifting its short selling ban on non-financial securities from Wednesday next week. This decision follows an extension of the ban last month. This announcement does not affect the ban on ...