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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
The Australian share market is trading slightly higher as investors put aside concerns about the partial shutdown of the United States government. Investors believe US politicians will quickly resolve their disagreement over a new debt ceiling that ...

No news, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
It must be another nothing to write home about day. You know it is when the headlines are headlining silly rationales. Wall Street's up because? Wall Streeters suddenly developed collective amnesia and forgot the Mexican standoff over America's budget ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
Australian shares are weaker after a US Federal Reserve official said tapering of economic stimulus could begin in October. Resources and energy stocks were the worst performers on the market. St Louis Fed president James Bullard's comments weighed ...

Russell and Matrix outcome-focused funds achieve solid start

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013
Russell Investment has partnered with Matrix Planning Solutions to develop and launch five actively managed portfolios designed to deliver different outcomes depending on the investor's life stage and needs. The PartnerShip Funds, as they will be known ...

ANZ reshuffles wealth division, Barrett to depart

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
ANZ managing director of Advice and Distribution Paul Barrett is leaving the company after a reshuffle of its Wealth division. The current managing director of Advice and Distribution Paul Barrett has decided to leave ANZ, effective September 16. Neil ...

ASIC accepts enforceable undertaking from WealthSure

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
WealthSure, WealthSure Financial Services and the former chief executive of both companies, Darren Pawski, will be put into an enforceable undertaking (EU) until 2018. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has accepted an EU from ...

Sagging commodities see drop in foreign investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
Australia is attracting considerably less foreign investment compared to the height of the mining boom, according to figures released by the Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA). In the six months ending December 2012, assets under custody ...

ANZ recruits from within for new MD Wealth role

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
ANZ has created the new position of managing director Bancassurance and Customer Experience, ANZ Wealth as part of a strategy to transform customer engagement. The previous ANZ managing director Retail New Zealand Kerri Thompson has been appointed to ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
"So, are you going to tighten by Labor Day?" Tonight we're going back to the future.A Going back to that fateful day on the 22nd of May -- when Texas Republican and head of the Joint Economics Committee Kevin Brady posed this question upon US Federal ...

PIS could face class action over "inadequate" advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
Slater & Gordon are considering a class action against Professional Investment Services (PIS) after retail investors face losses from the collapse of a Queensland olive farm investment scheme. Over 350 Australians had ploughed approximately $25 million ...