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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
The Australian share market has received strongly positive leads from offshore trading overnight, as markets rebounded on optimism following the European rescue plan. At 0657 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was ...

Super too complex to handle

MICHELLE BALTAZAR IS A MEDIA GUEST AT THE SECURITY ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN ADELAIDE  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
Relentless tinkering in superannuation rules has made the art of saving through super more like rocket science, driving many investors to make choices that could damage their financial health. Bryan Ashenden, head of technical consulting at Westpac-owned ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
The Australian share market is expected to open higher on Wednesday on positive leads from Wall Street, although oil and precious metals fell again in overnight trade. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0737 AEST, the June share price index contract ...

SSgA appoints equities head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
State Street Global has appointed Marc Reinganum as head of its active developed market equities team. Based in Boston, Reinganum is responsible for all aspects of active management within the global developed market equity portfolios, and reports to ...

Tale of two extremes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... helped much - not when history shows two different directions. It was exactly one year ago (9 March 2009) when Wall Street hit rock bottom, bounced, and -- except for a few fleeting glances - never looked back. It was all gloom and doom heading up to ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... being battered by waves of doubters in an ocean of despair. It was exactly one year ago (9 March 2009) when Wall Street hit rock bottom, bounced, and -- except for a few fleeting glances - never looked back. It was all gloom and doom heading up to this ...

Vice fund underperforms S&P 500 by 13pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
Tobacco, alcohol and gaming sounds like a rock star life but investors in a fund that targets these industries aren't exactly crowd surfing their way to financial bliss. The US-based Vice fund identified stocks across tobacco, alcohol, gaming and aerospace/defense ...

Fin services execs rock on for charity

Some financial service professionals have a secret identity - analysts, fund managers, financial planners and business development managers by day, rockstars by night. The Financial Industry Community Aid Programme (FICAP), developed in 2006 by a group ...

Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... Ireland and Spain serves a warning to other highly indebted countries. This is where the classic phrase, "caught between a rock and hard place" distinctly applies. Rock. Stop government spending support and the economy risks going into retreat. Weak ...

ETFs slash fund fees to 15bp

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... but only up to a limit of $A18,300 per annum though thay can also borrow back 'excess' contributions. The key to Thrift's rock bottom fees is that the six investment choices are ETFs or based on ETFs managed by BGI (now BlackRock): a government securities ...