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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
Australian shares are only slightly higher after solid gains on Wall Street but continuing problems in Europe. At 1022 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 4.4 points, or 0.11 per cent, at 4,017.7, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Cold calling scammer gets 10 year ban

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
Australian Securities & Investments Commission has banned City Index Australasia and its director, Blair Jason Travers, from the financial services industry for 10 years after being found guilty of a cold calling scam. Australian Securities & Investments ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
Australian shares have fallen, as pessimism about the European debt crisis continues. At 1200 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 15.6 points, or 0.39 per cent, at 4,012.2, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 16 points ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
Australian shares fell more than one per cent at noon after steep falls on Wall Street and European markets as well as tumbling resources stocks locally. At 1200 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 42.5 points, or 1.04 per cent ...

Premium China expands distribution team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
The need for an increase in adviser education on investing into the debt sector following last year's launch of the Premium Asia Income Fund has lead Premium China Funds Management to reconfigure its distribution team. The company has made two new hires ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
The Australian share market is trading lower after investors felt some disappointment over the latest moves by the US central bank to boost the US economy. The US Federal Reserve has extended a program that aims to encourage borrowing and spending by ...

Uncle Ben to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
What did you expect? Naturally with the G-20 about to conclude their meeting today and the US Federal Reserve holding policy deliberations, the financial market air would be rife with speculation. Rumours out of Los Cabos, Mexico propelled stock markets ...

SMSF establishments continue down trend

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
Establishments of self-managed super funds numbered 7,152 in the March quarter, according to the latest Australian Taxation Office statistics, continuing the decline in numbers from the quarterly peak of 10,434 in September 2011. The latest figures ...

FSS responds to Privacy Commissioner's Report

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
The trustee of First State Super has responded to the Privacy Commissioner's report into a data security breach last year, when a member was able to download the details of nearly 600 other members. Patrick Webster, First State Super (FSS) member, ex-NSW ...

Pop goes the QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
Party pooper. Spoilsport. Booo! One can almost taste - yes, taste - the financial markets' disappointment when dear Uncle Ben came and spoke with not even a hint that those beloved letters Q and E are in the offing. Not even a wink, wink, nudge, nudge. ...