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Trouble building in the housing market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
Australia's housing market continues to confound, not because it's expensive in world terms but because of the disconnect between people naively hoping for price reductions and everybody else complaining we aren't building them fast enough. The latest ...

BT: product strength will defend market share

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... right product, have the right relationships and price according to market conditions you've got to compete with market forces." "That's served us very well in the past and we don't see a reason for that to change." BT provides open architecture on its ...

Time for super to step up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... position to help Australia take a lead role around the world." Superannuation's authority, he said, is that across all its market segments it increasingly contributes to GDP, accounts for a growing share of taxation revenue and employ 400,000 people. ...

Hidden threat may lurk on bank balance sheets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... start going down it's the investor class that's exposed." Pezzullo said investors were more likely to sell lower than the market just to exit their positions than owner-occupiers who make up the bulk of bank lending - but that this could cause a knock-on ...

Fundamental indexing isn't

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
Fundamental indexing, when fund managers pick stocks based on market indicators other than market capitalisation, is just a disguised form of active management, said Gus Sauter, chief investment officer at Vanguard. While traditional indexing assigns ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
The Australian share market opened slightly lower, dragged down by European debt concerns but balanced by a surge in oil and energy stocks. At 1013 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 0.8 points lower at 4,628, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Merged planning group to meet new client needs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... more complex suite of advice to SME and individual clients. When Sydney based President Financial Services came on the market in 2010, KRA Financial Group and Mills Nettheim decided to join forces to acquire it and have now formed Eluvia. Between them ...

Ex UBS managers resurface for Bennelong small caps fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... but finding the right partners was vital. "We think opportunities exist here as a class and as a strategy but this is not market driven, we're taking a long term approach." "I think we're partnering with the highest quality talent available, they are ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
The Australian market has received uncertain leads from offshore trading overnight, as markets struggled with the meaning of the assassination of Osama bin Laden. On the ASX 24 at 0655 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 22 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street indices closing mixed after Europe was lower and Asia generally higher. Metals and oil were higher, too. At 0755 AEDT on the ASX 24, the June share price ...