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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
Australian shares climb after market-beating results from Apple helped bourses shrug off growing concerns that Greece may default on its debt. European and Wall Street fell overnight after eurozone officials rejected a final offer from the Greece's ...

ETF services expanded with cloud

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
Cloud technology is now driving full automation of the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) lifecycle, with one global investment servicing firm introducing a solution for development of new ETF products. State Street's new TotalETF product offers integration ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open flat after a game of brinkmanship between European leaders and Greek bondholders drove the region's stock markets lower as investors worried that a deal needed to cut Athens' mountain of debt might fall ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Australian shares have stayed in positive territory as hopes for a debt deal with Greece buoyed European shares and rising commodity prices boosted miners and energy companies. Energy stocks led the push higher, adding 0.7 per cent after news that the ...

SMSFs shift focus to property

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
SMSF trustees are slowly embracing property investments for fund investment strategies after the passing of limited recourse borrowing rules, although cash still holds allocation majority. According to information released in the latest Multiport SMSF ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
The Australian stock market at noon on Monday was slightly lower as investors awaited news on the Greek debt situation. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 7.4 points, or 0.17 per cent, weaker at 4,232.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

BofA: Fund managers appetite for risk growing

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
Only 3% of global fund managers believe the world economy will be worse off after 2012, according to a BofA Merrill Lynch fund manager survey, although geopolitical risks still rate highly as a concern. In the BofA Merrill Lynch survey of fund managers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat or weaker in the absence of strong leads from the US and Europe. At 0630 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down six points at 4,213. In economic news on Monday, the Australian ...

Intersuisse pursue Austock Securities

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Talks are continuing between the Austock Group and Singapore backed Intersuisse Holdings over its planned buy out of Austock's securities arm. Intersuisse, which has offices in Sydney and Melbourne but is part owned by the Singapore based Philip Group ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Something looks wrong - very, very wrong - with how financial markets are conducting themselves nowadays. Investors greeted 2012 with almost universal agreement that the global growth outlook would be worse than it was in 2011 - the World Bank recently ...