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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... one-week high of 8,061.07. HONG KONG - The Hong Kong sharemarket has been closed on Monday and Tuesday for the for the Lunar New Year holidays. WELLINGTON - The benchmark NZSX-50 index closed up 30.11 points, or 1.11 per cent, at 2,735.86. In early trade ...

Communication top priority for 2009

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... Fox from Total Financial Solutions and Synchron's Sarah Riegelhuth, the toughest challenge for financial planners this New Year is maintaining trust and strong communication with clients who have been battered by the financial crisis. For Fox, one of ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
Gung Hay Fat Choy! The English version of Happy New Year has not worked for financial markets so far. Perhaps the Chinese one will. The web says that in Cantonese these words also mean 'may prosperity be with you.' Indeed, may prosperity be with us ...

Legalsuper members favour Aussie shares

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... top performing funds management Fidelity head of Australian equities Paul Taylor told the Financial Standard that the New Year will represent "fantastic opportunities" to buy into the Aussie equities arena. Asset consultant Frontier, which has around ...

Confidence yardstick rises

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... a substantial improvement in outlook. While some of the increase is attributable to risk reallocations going into the New Year, it may also be true that institutional investors perceive that the risk of systemic collapse has abated somewhat in the wake ...

Bumper year for the faithful: Fidelity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... Fund manager Fidelity makes a line call and names 2009 as a vintage year for buying Aussie shares. Taylor believes the New Year will represent "fantastic opportunities" to buy into the Aussie equities arena. "We're going to go through what's going to ...

Insurance still tops: super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... longer a continuation option offered, said the fund. Finally, the $332 million Accountants Super is also ushering the New Year with a focus on upgrading the insurance cover of its members. Insured members for death and TPD purposes will be provided with ...

Aviva SMA gets adviser tick

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... clean slate", he said. Aviva advisers are currently focusing their attention on helping their clients strategise for the New Year following 2008's market volatility, and Cobb believes that the start of the new financial year would be a better timed opportunity ...

Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
In spite of the best wishes for good tidings for the New Year, sorrows and trouble abound. The global financial crisis shows no signs of abating. The global economic future looks glum. Yet Americans are unable to afford their usual psychological crutches ...

New year, new stocks: Suncorp

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Suncorp Investment Management has dramatically changed the investment line up within its Investment Management Word Equities Trust when it axed 50 per cent of the stocks in the portfolio and reconfigured fund manager allocation. The trust has increased ...