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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... 0.13 per cent to 4,381.5 points. NEW YORK - US stocks see-sawed in more noncommittal trade to close almost flat for the third straight session, with fresh data sending more mixed signals on the economy. After adding 0.3 per cent in the early afternoon ...

It's still the hole, stups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012

Market down 5%: Resources look ugly

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... since 2009, while cyclicals recorded their worst - despite industrials earnings rising 4%. With only a little more than a third of stocks having had their full year 2013 forecast upgraded - similar to the past three reporting seasons - Deutsche Bank ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

BetaShares expands coverage

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... Report conducted in December 2011, the most commonly cited problem encountered with ETFs among planners was the lack of third party research (28%) as well as particular ETFs not being available on platforms (15%). "While there is still further work to ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... expansion/contraction mark which, according to Markit, "reinforces the prevailing view of the economy dropping into recession during the third quarter of 2012" and that, "Taken together, the July and August readings would historically be consistent with ...

SMSF's need life cover education

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
Knowledge of life insurance offers is the biggest barrier to self managed super fund members taking it up within their fund, said AIA Australia. AIA Australia surveyed approximately 400 advisers on the knowledge and take-up of life insurance within ...

Lifecycle discussion needs context: Milliman

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... seem to be going down this path and launching those same sorts of funds where in the US we're already seeing the second and third generations of those funds come to the market where people are already addressing these sorts of shortcomings." Target date ...

Greens plan to fell Westpac-backed logging

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
Greens senator Lee Rhiannon yesterday moved a motion calling on the Government to get involved in the debate over Westpac's financial backing of logging operations in the Solomon Islands. Earlier this week Westpac was identified as the guarantor of ...

Julius Baer buys Merrill Lynch wealth

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
Swiss private banking group Julius Baer will acquire Merrill Lynch's International Wealth Management business outside the United States from Bank of America. It's understood Julius Baer paid 860 million Swiss francs for the acquisition, which is expected ...