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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after falling sharply on Monday dragged down by the resourses sector and following mixed results on international bourses. At 0630 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 31 ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
The Australian share market has opened lower in a market affected by large stocks going ex-dividend. At 1045 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 18.4 points, or 0.36 per cent, at 5,067.7, while the broader All Ordinaries index was ...

Wall Street up till it was down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
This is absurd, I thought to myself when I woke up and saw Wall Street on the up and up, punctuated by headlines such as: "Dow Average Approaches Record After GDP, Jobless Claims" (Bloomberg) "Wall Street edges higher, Dow and S&P records a hurdle" ...

AustralianSuper threatens to sue the Future Fund

STAFF REPORTER  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... morning the Australian Financial Review reported that it had obtained a letter, sent on Monday on AustralianSuper's behalf by law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler, threatening legal action against both the Future Fund and Hastings Funds Management Limited (HFML). ...

Bernanke pours liquid over Roman burn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
The title just about describes the events of last night and the one before. Woe to Europe that's feeling antsy pantsy over Italy's result - or should I say, non-result - and the extrapolation of this into "skyfall" (Finally, I got the chance to use ...

QE paradox in reverse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... "general sense of optimism that's permeating through every nook and cranny of the financial market world", there's still Murphy's Law: anything that can go wrong will go wrong. And it could be oil because "dearer oil prices raise the cost of business ...

Co-operation key to avoiding pain from ASIC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... and Investments Commission (ASIC) are better off working with the regulator than prepare for a legal battle, according to a law firm specialising in the area. A seemingly endless stream of enforced undertakings, cancelled licenses and investigation from ...

AFA mulls fresh approach to FOFA code of conduct

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... be about driving adviser behaviour; behaviour that builds consumer trust and designing a code to circumvent elements of the law is at odds with the intended purpose of professional codes, which are typically about how to apply the law to give the right ...

APN launches new property fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
APN Property Group has launched a new unlisted, six-year, fixed term property fund called the APN 541 St Kilda Road fund. It will invest in an eight-storey commercial office building located at 541 St Kilda Road, Melbourne that will be bought for $28 ...

CalPERS cry foul play, backs lawsuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... in connection with the US President's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. The task force was the largest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to tackle fraud, pulling in the powers of more than 20 federal ...