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Fix churn with watch list: AFA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) said churn should be handled by insurers sharing information to create an industry watch list that would identify advisers participating in the practice. The AFA proposal is in response to recent Financial ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat after finishing in negative territory for six straight sessions and overnight falls on Wall Street. At 0815 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was unchanged at 4,038. The US ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... offing. There is Europe. The europhoria sparked by the "breakthrough agreement" at the 28-29 June EU Summit was just that - a spark that quickly died out as soon as the first set of bad news trickled out of the region. The most recent one being Germany's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street fell amid lingering doubts over Spain's bailout package. At 0810 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up one point at 4,065. In economic news on Thursday ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
We're in trouble now... big trouble. That's the ugly picture painted by the latest US non-farm payrolls report and Wall Street's reaction to it. The S&P 500 fell by 0.94%, the Dow by 0.96% and the Nasdaq by 1.30% the day the US Labor Department released ...

RARE, Lazard infra funds 'highly recommended' by Lonsec

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... popular in most portfolios, despite making up a minor portion of most global infrastructure indices, with Australian listed Spark Infrastructure the most popular, "appearing in the top 10 holdings of four of the six global infrastructure funds we rated," ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
The Australian sharemarket has remained flat as investors consolidated the gains of the last couple of days. At 1200 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 2.9 points, or 0.07 per cent, at 4,135.9, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher despite a mixed performance on Wall Street overnight after news that manufacturing contracted for the first time in almost three years, raising concerns the United States has joined a global industrial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
The Australian sharemarket was more than 1% higher at noon following gains on US and European markets and strong performances from resource and energy stocks. At 1200 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 52.8 points, or 1.29 per cent ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
US stocks leapt two per cent on Friday sparked by the dramatic measures adopted in Brussels to stem the eurozone crisis and stimulate growth, giving the markets a strong end to a rocky first half. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 277.83 points ...