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Investor 'fear factor' lowest in 40 months

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Australian investors are less scared then they have been in more than three years, and stock market return expectations are at a 20 month high. Research group Investment Trends today released the findings of its January 2013 Investor Intentions Index ...

Bell Direct ranked top online broker

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
Online share trader Bell Direct has again topped the customer satisfaction rankings for online traders, ranking first in 15 out of 16 categories in the Investment Trends Online Broking Report for the second half of 2012. The rankings reflect positive ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
The Australian share market has opened fairly flat following a lacklustre finish on Wall Street. At 1030 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 5.6 points, or 0.11 per cent, at 4,941.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 4.5 ...

Bell Direct ranked top online broker

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
Online share trading business Bell Direct has topped the customer satisfaction rankings for online traders in the Investment trends Online Broking report for the second half of 2012. The broker almost achieved a clean sweep ranking first in 15 out of ...

Rum outcome for Bundy: ASIC suspend license

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
A day after a Western Australian credit broker had his license revoked for breaking the law, the industry body has banned Harold Charles Bundy for three years after it found he was not a fit and proper person to engage in credit activities. The ban ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
The Australian share market has rebounded slightly from its weak start. At 1045 AEDT on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 4.3 points, or 0.09 per cent, at 4,916.7, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 3.8 points, or 0.08 per ...

New claimants join class action against CBA

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
New claimants will participate in a class action brought against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia over the sale of complex debt instruments by Gloucester Shire Council in NSW and self-managed superannuation fund Clurname in the Federal Court last ...

Insider selling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
The insiders are selling! The insiders are selling! But before this let's switch over to our man on Wall Street. Hold on...our man, Mr. Bloomberg (not New York's Mayor but the "premier site for business and financial market news"), seems confused. At ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat despite falls on international markets overnight. At 0721 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up five points at 4,880. In economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of ...

Future Fund returns 12.8% for 2012

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
Improving global investment markets helped Australia's Future Fund gain more than $9 billion in 2012. The Future Fund, created in 2006 to invest retirement savings on behalf of Australia's public sector employees, also made a return of more than 12% ...