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Lawyer exposes ASIC favours to big players

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) lawyer James Wheeldon has revealed the regulator gave favourable treatment to the big end of the market. Wheeldon appeared yesterday at a public hearing of the Senate inquiry into the performance of the regulator. ...

FSC awards life insurance companies

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... Wealth direct life insurance product manager Rajasree Variyar and Zurich Life & Investments research program was given the 'Big Thinking' award. BT Financial group received the BlueChip Communication Social Media Innovation award and Asteron Life's Smarter ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
The share market is in positive territory, but finding resistance against any sizeable gains. Despite a strong lead from US and European markets, higher iron ore prices and speculation that global miner BHP Billiton is considering demerging some assets ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
The share market has opened lower with a weak start for the big four banks, despite a positive lead with solid gains on Wall Street overnight. Morgans private client adviser Alistair McCorquodale said the market may have been distorted by the transition ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... contract was up four points at 5,397. The Fed chair's comments, in a speech in Chicago, underlined that unemployment was still a big challenge for the economy and that the Fed would maintain its extraordinary measures until the jobless rate fell a lot ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... cents to $62.91 and Fortescue Metals was one cent lower at $5.25. Gold miner Newcrest was 23 cents weaker at $9.45. But the big four banks fared better, with National Australia Bank up 33 cents at $35.37, Westpac had lifted 16 cents to $34.37, ANZ climbed ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following Wall Street and European markets which rebounded on regional economic data and European Central Bank talk that looser monetary policy could be in the offing. At 0810 AEDT on Wednesday, the June ...

Low volatility investing exploits low risk anomaly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... returns, particularly in the case of emerging markets investing. Wirds, speaking to a full house at last week's Rainmaker Adviser Big Day Out seminar in Sydney, said Robeco calls this relationship the 'low risk anomaly'. "Indeed, low risk stocks achieve ...

A$ rising on China slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
Uh-oh, Governor Glen Stevens won't be a happy little Vegemite this morning. No Virginia... not with headlines proclaiming the Australian dollar's comeback - as in, it's again on the rise against the US dollar. My Bloomberg screen shows the A$ fetched ...

Industry funds spend millions on advertising

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
Industry superannuation funds are spending millions of dollars a year on advertising, with some funds' expenditure even exceeding that spent by banks on their own superannuation advertising campaigns, figures released by Nielsen show. However, overall ...