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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
The Australian market was hovering around four-and-a-half year highs at open after Wall Street soared to a record high. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 hit 5,119.8 shortly after open, before falling slightly. It is the highest level the market has reached ...

ClearView appoints heads of direct and advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
ClearView Wealth Limited announced yesterday two senior management appointments in its direct and advice businesses. ClearView has appointed Elliot Singfield as head of direct. Since February, Singfield has been leading the Direct business which includes ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
The Australian market has shot up by more than one-and-a-half per cent at noon, with investors using yesterday's falls to lap up cheaper stocks. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner describes it as a relief rally following Monday's decline. ...

Aussie billionaires ranked in Forbes richlist

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is, once again, the Australian furthest up the annual Forbes list of wealthiest billionaires, coming in at number 36. Forbes estimated her wealth at $17 billion and suggested that lower iron ore prices may have knocked a ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
The Australian share market is trading lower following negative leads from overseas markets. At 1200 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 26 points, or 0.51 per cent, at 5,078.1 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had reversed ...

Challenger hops on SuperStream gateway

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
The Challenger Retirement Fund has signed up to the electronic SuperStream rollover gateway, a move that could reduce some of its admin costs to a fraction of where they are today. The Fund said it is the first superannuation fund to sign up to the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
The Australian share market continued to rise in morning trade after a strong session on Wall Street and the release of mostly encouraging earnings reports locally. At 1203 AEDT on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 31.1 points, or 0.62 ...

AFA ramps up membership campaign

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... after 151 financial advisers joined the organisation during its GenXt yearly roadshow. Queensland with 37 new members and West Australia were the two states with more new memberships in an association that has now over 2,000 members. "Our target is to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after a positive performance on Wall Street buoyed by upbeat earnings results and after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said US economic growth had rebounded from the fourth quarter. At 0901 AEDT ...

AvSuper appoints Perpetual for a $75m equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
AvSuper has appointed Perpetual Investments for a $75 million Australian equities mandate. This is the first appointment that the Canberra-based superannuation fund has done in the last year and it is also the first time that it does business with Perpetual. ...