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Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... policy stance". As for China, the question is not when but when again. It again raised borrowing rates on 8 February - the third hike in four months. Then there's sovereign risk. Europe had been quietened for a while, perhaps because of the MidEast sideshow ...

Proposed reforms could hurt insurance levels: AFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... cost the government $1.3 billion over the next 10 years in extra social security payments. The AFA is soon set to begin the third tranche of its consumer/adviser research. The research, which is sponsored by AIA and conducted by CoreData-brandmanagement ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... Libya and the wider region could hit oil supplies. The fall in Frankfurt came despite German business confidence hitting a third straight record high this month, according to the Ifo institute, with analysts cheering the results and hailing an exceptional ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... operations. Housing materials supplier James Hardie Industries rose seven cents, or 1.1 per cent, to $6.64 after reporting a third quarter loss of $US26.4 million ($A26.15 million), bringing total losses for the year to $US345.2 million ($A341.97 million). ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. ANZ Banking Group Ltd releases its first quarter trading update. James Hardie Industries SE issues third quarter results. MAp Group releases January traffic figures, and the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving clear, positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with all three key Wall Street indices substantially higher, as were European and Asian markets. Gold was flat but higher, oil was higher, but silver and copper ...

Morningstar signs $35bn research deal with CFS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... representing around $35 billion under advice. Tim Murphy, co-head of fund research at the firm said that the CFS deal is the third major deal they've signed in recent years, after signing Millenium3, which previously used Financial Facts (the now defunct ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... which were more encouraging. Barclays jumped 3.0 per cent to 320.15 pence after the bank said its 2010 net profit rose a third to over 3.5 billion and announced it had cut bonuses following a government-brokered deal to clamp down on excessive pay. Barclays ...

Fund managers eye Asian equities: RBC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Fund managers are casting their nets wider into the Asia Pacific region to deliver 'alpha', shunning China and India to boost their portfolio returns, a survey found. The RBC Capital Markets survey reported high levels of confidence in Asian equity ...

Self-directed investors challenge industry giants

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... popularity of SMSFs, managed accounts and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). To date, the self-managed super funds is already a third the size of the entire superannuation industry with $420 billion in assets while an estimated $50 billion of funds are in ...