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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
Australian shares were slightly higher at noon, after the local market bounced back in response to a better than expected day of trading on Wall Street. At 1200 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 5.5 points, or 0.13 per cent, at ...

New advice agreements ensure advisers are FOFA ready

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
RI Advice Group has redesigned adviser agreements to give advisers a competitive advantage post-FOFA. "FOFA will lead to significant changes for the financial advice industry so all forward thinking businesses need to assess their practices and be FOFA-ready," ...

Arts attract philanthropic funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
Arts, culture and humanities continue to attract the largest portion of philanthropic funds, according to Myer Family Company's annual review. Funds for projects ranging from direct support of artists to acquisition of works and related community development ...

Social media creating advice connections

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
The application of social media in financial services continues to divide opinion but for some in the industry, it has become an invaluable tool to help connect with clients and drive business forward. One of the arguments against investing in a social ...

Stay or stay away this May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
I think somebody forgot to tell the equity market that it's already May. Remember May? The time of the year when investors should sell then go away. But instead we got this headline from Bloomberg, "Dow Rallies to Highest Level Since 2007... " The Dow ...

Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
Instant replay. What we've seen last week seemed to be a replay of the general theme that has been playing at computer screens near us for some time now. There's the ever-simmering European sovereign debt crisis that creates tension in the financial ...

QIC awards Molpus alternative timber mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
Investment manager QIC has awarded a mandate to US-based Molpus Woodlands Group, with the timber specialist purchasing 42,000 acres on behalf of the QIC Alternative Beta Fund. QIC is not disclosing the dollar value of the mandate, although it is believed ...

There's the good news and there's the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
So where have all gloom and doomers gone? Yes them - the worrywarts who sent the S&P 500 index tumbling down by as much as 4.2% earlier this month. Where the bloody hell are they now? They should be jumping with joy and wringing their hands with the ...

Advisers should focus on cost of advice

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
Financial advisers should place more scrutiny on the cost of providing advice per client as the industry moves toward fee for service, according to Provisio Technologies. Planning businesses may struggle to accurately pin down service costs per client ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call? Ben Bernanke! It was a wow day on Wall Street overnight as our friend Ben reinforced this Ben's view that it would be a win-win for equity markets, no matter how the Fed see its ...