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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open little changed as the negative sentiment following falls in US stocks are offset by the positive sentiment generated by gains in the oil price. At 0743 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share ...

Finsuper members flock to new insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
More than 350 Finsuper Division members, a division within AustralianSuper that caters for financial services workers, have taken up the fund's new insurance offer in the 10 days since it launched. The Finsuper Division was created to cater for financial ...

AMP Cap continues senior hiring spree

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
AMP Capital Investors hired Warwick Mancini as head of investment specialists for unlisted assets and Brigette Leckie as senior investment specialist for Asia Pacific equities. Mancini joins AMP Capital Investors from Macquarie Group where he worked ...

It's all about China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
The times...they really have changed. Will this be Generation Next's new economic order. I speak of course about the fast increasing dominance of China in the world stage. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept interest rates unchanged at 3 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
The Australian share market rose during the morning to be about one per cent higher at noon, led by the miners after base metals prices improved on Friday and gains in US equities. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 44.3 points, or 1.16 per ...

Bonnie and Clyde team caught for fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
A couple from Victoria has admitted to committing SMSF fraud - with the husband pleading guilty to 12 charges including theft and conducting business without a financial services licence following an ASIC investigation. Shaun White of Montmorency, Victoria ...

FOS gears up to combat record complaints

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is on a hiring spree, increasing staff numbers by around 25 per cent in around nine months to cope with record levels of complaints across the financial services market. Colin Neave, chief ombudsman at FOS, said ...

AFA calls for Rising Star in advice

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is calling for nominations for the 2009 AFA Rising Star of the Year Award, an annual award that goes to the best up-and-coming professional in the advice industry. Richard Klipin, the association's chief executive ...

Acronyms pull down USD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Indications are emerging that markets are 'starting to heal' but 'forceful and sustained' policy actions are still needed. These words from US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner perhaps best sum up the macro-environment for the second quarter economy ...

Investors rush to oil ETCs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Exchange traded commodity (ETC) provider, ETF Securities,enjoyed a $1.2 billion rise in inflows into oil ETCs in the first four months of this year. Inflows into oil ETCs were more than two times the flows recorded during 2008 with assets under management ...