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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
The Australian market is set to open higher as Wall Street posted a small rise and on better news from Spain, where borrowing costs eased. At 0820 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up nine points at 5,123. In economic ...

Former Astarra director permanently banned from fin services

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced today that it has permanently banned former Astarra Asset Management director Eugene Liu from providing financial services for failing to comply with financial services laws. Liu ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
The Australian market was hovering around four-and-a-half year highs at open after Wall Street soared to a record high. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 hit 5,119.8 shortly after open, before falling slightly. It is the highest level the market has reached ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged to an all-time high. The Dow finished up 125.95 points for the day, a 0.89 per cent gain, to 14,253.77, easily beating the former closing record of 14,164.53 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after falling sharply on Monday dragged down by the resourses sector and following mixed results on international bourses. At 0630 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 31 ...

Debt free and dividend rich: Fiducian

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Listed financial services provider Fiducian Portfolio Services has posted consolidated profit after tax for the half-year to December of $1.69 million, in a period that saw the company wrap up its two-year long system upgrade and acquisitions. This ...

Former Lonsec MD pleads guilty to insider trading

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Former managing director of stockbroking firm Lonsec Norman John Graham pleaded guilty to two charges of insider trading, the Australian Securities and Investments Comission (ASIC) announced on Friday. The charges relate to an order that Graham placed ...

Australian Ethical profits jump

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Australian Ethical Investment has posted a 71% rise in profits following significant improvements to its operations. The fund manager reported a net profit after tax of $487,000 for the six months to 31 December 2012. Managing director Phil Vernon said ...

Vanguard cuts costs on intl equities ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Vanguard has reduced the headline cost of its All-World ex-US Shares Index Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) from 0.18% to 0.15%. According to the index fund specialist, the management expense ratio on the product has fallen by an average of 10 basis points ...

The virtuous cycle is back in play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Who's afraid of sequestration? Not Wall Street it seems. The US$85 billion in spending cuts known as 'sequestration' came into effect last Friday, the 1st of March. Yes, that one. That unkind cut that the IMF predicts will shave half a percent to its ...