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Market Wrap - Morning

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... Energy Corp and J.M. Smucker Co all rose after reporting stronger earnings results. Barrick's quarterly profit jumped four-fold, helped by higher production and lower costs. The world's largest gold miner's stock gained 1.9 per cent. Duke Energy's net ...

Catching its second wind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
What's this? More good news out of America and yet Wall Street went nowhere overnight? The Dow closed just a little bit (0.1 per cent) lower. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended last night's session just a tad (0.1 per cent) higher. It was hilarious reading ...

Welsh retires as VicSuper CEO

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... tenure, VicSuper opened to the public in July 2000 - and membership of the fund has doubled and net assets increased ten fold over the past decade. Welsh is also the pioneer of VicSuper's strong position on sustainability and commitment to building a ...

Rise of the new rich

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... wealthiest country in Europe. Meanwhile, Indonesia's average wealth per adult grew the fastest in the region, rising five-fold to US$1.8 trillion in a decade. Not to be outdone, Australian investors are ranked third richest when it comes to the average ...

Super tax breaks unaffordable: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Australia can't afford the rising and inequitable cost of superannuation tax concessions, said Treasury in its Red Book briefing to the returned ALP government. Each election, Treasury prepares a briefing folder for both the government should they be ...

Zurich kit connects advisers to new clients

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
Zurich has launched a financial adviser kit to assist advisers catering to clients in the medical profession. In the wake of the election decision and the Independent MP's stance, rural areas and medical professionals are expected to receive far greater ...

New tech offers high data protection

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
Acronis has launched new software that offers financial planners high data recovery and non-stop backup systems while simplifying the right backup configuration to suit their needs. The Acronis True Image Home 2011 (ATI Home 2011) is now available and ...

Challenger back in the black, annuity sales trebles

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... business, which posted record sales over the year. Retail and institutional annuity product sales increased more than three-fold from $514 million to $2.19 billion. Retail sales of annuities alone rose 82 per cent to $933 million. "An ageing population ...

Platforms up 30pc to $391bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... full six percentage points ahead of current leader BT. The fastest growing platforms are IOOF Portfolio Services up five -fold in a year and AXA's North platform suit which has tripled in a year. Showing the impact of innovation in the platform market ...

Senior exec moves at AMP and RARE

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
Three RARE Infrastructure analysts have joined AMP Capital Investors - while Charles Hamieh, AMP senior analyst, global infrastructure securities, moves to RARE next month. AMP Capital Investors has welcomed three RARE researchers to its folds, including ...