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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street closed the week 90 points up. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 90.54 points (0.63 per cent) at 14,512.03 on Friday. The broad-based S&P 500 increased 11.09 (0.72 per cent) ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street closed the week 90 points up. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 90.54 points (0.63 per cent) at 14,512.03 on Friday. The broad-based S&P 500 increased 11.09 (0.72 per cent) ...

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
This was to be the year of the Great Rotation. The period when the bond market waves the white flag and give up the fight for investor dollars to the market for equities. That's until Cyprus. It has to come up with a,-5.8 billion (by taxing bank deposits ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street closed the week 90 points up. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 90.54 points (0.63 per cent) at 14,512.03 on Friday. The broad-based S&P 500 increased 11.09 (0.72 per cent) ...

SMSFs on track to reach $500bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
The self managed super fund segment is on track to break through $500 billion by June this year, according Deloitte Actuaries and Consultants. Pushing them through this threshold is the strong rebound in equity markets that holds an estimated one-quarter ...

ASIC eases fears on high frequency trading

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has said in a new report that fears related to high frequency trading (HFT) are mostly unfounded. The much-anticipated report, released today, follows investigation into market prices by two ...

Former consultant sentenced for insider trading

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
The County Court of Victoria has sentenced former consultant Ulf Ronnie Lindskog after being convicted of four insider trading charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Judge David Parsons sentenced Lindskog to ...

Refresher pause?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
I don't know if you're feeling what I'm feeling but I feel that the S&P 500 index is being quite a tease the past few days. While the Dow just went and did it - broken its record - the S&P 500 continues in flirt mode, heading towards it but not really ...

Same Day Money loses credit licence

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cancelled the Australian Credit Licence (ACL) of Cairns-based business Same Day Money. Same Day Money director Lawrence James Sullivan has also been banned from engaging in credit activities ...

Strong returns help UniSuper stave off benefit review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
Recovering capital markets boosting UniSuper's investment returns have helped to lift the solvency funding ratios of the fund's defined benefit division - enough for the trustee to defer a decision on reviewing member benefits. While the trustee is ...