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Parrish, Williamson, Chow to exit CPG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
Following the purchase of a majority holding in asset consultant CPG Research and Advisory earlier this year by Sigma Alpha International Limited (SAIL), CPG principals John Parrish, Peter Williamson and Philip Chow will be leaving the business. Simon ...

IBM Super offers more insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
IBM Super have announced the closing weeks of a number of special offer deals for their super members, providing the opportunity for members to gain additional insurance coverage. Members up to the age of 70 can apply for additional voluntary Death ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
Local markets have received strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with heavy falls on Wall Street, oil falling below $US75, and metals, too generally lower. Only gold futures rose. At 0717 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the ...

Something for everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
The see on Wall Street sawed again last night. Three days of positive performance wiped out last night. The Dow closed 1.4 per cent lower while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both lost 1.7 per cent. Why? Because the positive outlook on the US economy that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
The Australian share market has received mixed to positive leads from offshore trading overnight. US stock indices were higher, Europe equities were mixed, and metals and oil, too, returned mixed results. At 0731 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Challenger poaches ING portfolio manager for small cap fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
Challenger's launch of an Australian small companies fund, its tenth boutique, inadvertently resulted in an ING small cap fund being placed 'on hold' yesterday. The departure of Sinclair Currie, former lead portfolio manager at ING, for Challenger prompted ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with equities markets generally strong and metals and oil all trading higher, too. At 0745 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract ...

Same song

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... past four days? Perhaps it's the economic data. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. US industrial production jumped by 1 per cent in July - twice market expectations for a 0.5 per cent increase. Now, there's not gonna be a double-dip because it indicates that ...

Fastest growing planners book above 30pc growth

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
AFG Financial Planning, Senty Financial Services and Shadforth Financial are among the top 10 fastest growing financial adviser groups, all of which posted more than 30 per cent growth of adviser numbers each year over the past three years, Rainmaker ...

ETFs hit trillion dollar milestone

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
The global exchange traded fund (ETF) industry hit the US$1 trillion mark this month and product providers predict the launch of fixed income ETFs this year and next will drive the sector's mainstream appeal. At the end of July 2010, the global ETF ...