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Non-aligned advisers driving new platforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... its June 2012 Advantage Report that profiles the platform and adviser markets. "Non-aligned advisers making up nearly one-third of the market shows that the advice market is arguably the most open and competitive part of the wealth management market," ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... season, which has just got underway, aluminium maker Alcoa said it had posted a $US143 million ($A140.78 million) loss in the third quarter of calendar 2012. Shares in its Australian joint-venture partner Alumina were up 3.25 cents at 90.75 cents. The ...

Annuities lead US advice requests

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... Cerulli. But although annuity awareness is growing in the US, Cerulli said insurers and advisors must not forget that one-third of households are still unaware of annuities. "Both the positive and the negative attention annuities have received in the ...

PE deals down: Mergermarket

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... year to date, according to a report by research group Mergermarket. 12.7% of total global mergers and acquisitions in the third quarter this year were attributable to private equity buyouts, standing at US$ 58.6 billion, the lowest value for global Q3 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its global economic growth forecasts and investors braced for the start of a poor third-quarter earnings season. The IMF's gloomier outlook for 2012 and 2013 global growth came a day after the World Bank slashed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... equity news on Tuesday, Leighton Holdings said its Victorian desalination plant had successfully operated continuously at one third of its capacity for seven consecutive days, allowing it to achieve preliminary commercial acceptance. Leighton was down ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... earnings guidance. The Financial Times reports that the S&P 500 companies' earnings are expected to decline by 2.7% in the third quarter. Bloomberg says they'll be down by 1.7%. But whatever, the point is that the third quarter of 2012 is expected to ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... - US stocks on Monday followed European and Asian markets lower, giving up some of last week's solid gains ahead of the third quarter earnings reporting season. At the close the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 26.50 points (0.19 per cent) ...

Trading mistake forces Indian exchange crash

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... prices. The trades could have been reversed by buying back the shares at higher levels. Friday's incident was at least the third instance since April when trading on the National Stock Exchange has been hit because of incorrect orders, Dow Jones Newswires ...

Mandates slugged by downturn

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... Highlights from Rainmaker's Mandate Chaser research reveal that mandate appointments (441) in the year to 30 June 2012 were a third down on 2011 (617) numbers. While the average number of mandates per super fund (20) in 2011-12 is up around 43% from ...