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AMP fin svcs results reflect overall growth...

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
Despite what continues to be a volatile market, AMP half yearly results reflect good growth in adviser numbers, banking, risk insurance and sales of key wealth management products such as Flexible Super and North. Announced this morning, AMP has posted ...

Super now the fourth pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
Superannuation is now the fourth pillar of Australia's social and economic life and the national disability insurance scheme will develop to become the fifth, said minister Bill Shorten at a major superannuation function at Parliament House in Canberra ...

Advisers prep for 'back-to-basics' investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
A return to safe investments and investor aversion to risk is predicted following recent market fluctuations, but advisers are firm that strong planning principles remain the same. Perpetual Private Wealth has predicted a return to 'back-to-basics' ...

Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
Volatility products can be successfully used to protect a portfolio against the turmoil striking international share markets, a top executive from the Chicago Board Options Exchange said yesterday. Volatility as measured by the CBOE volatility index ...

Social media insurance wanted for share price protection

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
The potential negative of impact social media on a company's share price has lead to the development of social media insurance protection products, but Australian boards still want more access online. Under discussion at the Association of Chartered ...

Investment manager goes mobile

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
Ethical funds manager Hunter Hall has updated its website for portable compatibility, after new research revealed that a large number of users are accessing the site through mobile devices. Information technology and projects manager, Asher Lockhart ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
The Australian share market dropped sharply on the open as nervous investors reacted to Standard & Poor's historic weekend downgrade of US sovereign credit. At time of writing the All Ordinaries Index had fallen 66.1 points or 1.59% to 4103.6 while ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Uh-oh, we're in trouble now - really big trouble -- or so they say. No use pretending not to know what I'm talking about, it's splattered all over the weekend news. S&P has dropped one A from the USA's AAA. I must admit, I too didn't know what to think ...

Super funds hit back at anti-carbon tax groups

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
Superannuation funds and fund managers have warned against the advertising campaign against the carbon tax, with concerns it's misleading the public and threatening a shareholder resolution. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), responsible for ...

Gold, gold, gold, but not to Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
Australian investors, including super funds, misinterpreting gold as a returns generator rather than as a defensive strategy is costing them major opportunities in the sector. Taurus Funds Management is a specialist in the gold sector and their director ...