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Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
The details are still sketchy as I type but the shootings at Canada's Parliament in Ottawa may just have been the reason dip-buyers were waiting for to cash in the gains they bought during the previous week's bigger than usual dips. Not because of oil ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... points. NEW YORK - US stocks dropped following mixed earnings, with the broad market retreating from three straight sessions of big gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 153.49 points (0.92 per cent) to 16,461.32. The broad-based S&P 500 fell ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
Australian shares looks set to open higher after international markets shot up on strong Chinese economic growth data and rumours Europe's central bank will step up its monetary stimulus. At 0805 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures ...

ASIC to crack down on big four, AMP and Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
Australia's six largest financial advice firms will be subject to surveillance from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) next year to make sure they comply with high-risk areas of the law. The initiative is part of the regulator's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street recovered early losses to trade in positive territory. At 0810 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 14 points at 5,320. Locally, in economic news on ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Shares are more than 1% firmer as Australian investors shrug off concerns about slowing global growth. The big banks and miners were leading the broader local market higher as investors took their cues from a rebound on US and European markets, Australian ...

AustralianSuper to double size of in-house investment team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... recruited locally. "We will control the risk by controlling the amount of money they manage so it won't automatically go to a big number." Like many superannuation funds, AustralianSuper has significantly raised its exposure to international equities ...

SelectingSuper fund award finalists announced

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
SelectingSuper has announced the finalists for this year's fund, product and self managed superannuation administrator of the year awards being held in Melbourne on 21 November. The awards are supported by MetLife and span 15 divisions including Fund ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Just when I was about to ditch Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down" as the equity market's 2014 anthem... the central bankers came and (re)played it all again. "I get knocked down but I get up again, you're never going to keep me down". Nah Virginia ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... off quite significantly and a lot of investors are quite happy to look at buying some of these dips as well," he told AAP. Big lenders are driving the gains. The Commonwealth Bank had risen 84.5 cents to $76.775, ANZ was up 41 cents at $31.99, Westpac ...