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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
Australian shares are higher, with mining giants and mid-sized financial companies leading the gains. A better than expected consumer sentiment reading also gave the market a small boost. CMC Markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said rising ...

ASIC slaps permanent ban on insurance claim manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
ASIC has permanently banned a Victorian insurance claims manager from providing financial services after an investigation found he fraudulently pocketed more than $1 million. Travers David Loy, of Heathmont in Victoria, was the national claims manager ...

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... Before we laid our heads down to sleep we learned that the ANZ job advertisement series fell for the fourth straight month in June - down by 1.8% from down 2.5% in May. The series is down by 19% from a year ago. This is important for Australia because ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street and European bourses as investors took a new look at upbeat US jobs data and looked forward to the kickoff America's earnings season. At 0805 AEST on Tuesday, the September ...

SSgA launches hedged international equities ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has launched an international equities exchange traded fund (ETF) for Australian investors. The SPDR S&P World ex-Australia (Hedged) Fund will be hedged back into Australian dollars and begins trading on 9 July. Since ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower despite strong gains on Wall Street following good jobs data. At 0754 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was down 13 points at 4,781. In economic news on Monday, the Australian ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
Who's scared of Fed taper? Not Wall Street...not anymore, gauging from it's performance last week. The Dow ended 1.6% higher, the S&P 500 closed 1.5% on the plus and the Nasdaq turned in a positive 2.2%. All in a week that, on balance, gave you, I and ...

Magellan boosts performance fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
Magellan Financial Group has seen its performance fees surge in the past six months with a performance fee revenue of $23.1 million in the past six months. The global equity manager was the highest performing stock on the ASX200 index during financial ...

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
What the...? Wall Streeters must have smoked or drank some heavy stuff ahead of America's 4th of July holiday celebrations. All three of America's benchmark equity indices - the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq - closed higher while most other equity ...

SelfWealth to distribute through BGL

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
SelfWealth has signed a wholesale distribution agreement with software supplier BGL Corporate Solutions. The SelfWealth solution will be integrated into BGL's Simple Fund 360, which will be released later this year. BGL and SelfWealth will integrate ...