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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
The Australian stock market opened lower after world equity markets slumped as investors worried about higher oil prices due to violent unrest in Libya. At 1015 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 23.5 points, or 0.49 per cent, at 4822.4 ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
ave the grizzlies driven the dip buyers away? Americans came back from their President's Day holiday and saw that nervy days are back again. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.1 per cent overnight - its biggest in 6 months - and the VIX or "fear index" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
The Australian market has received mixed to negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with nervousness stemming from unrest in the Middle East and concerns over possible economic tightening in China contrasting with positive economic news in Europe. ...

Poor advice fine to reach $200k

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
Financial advisers who break the law could face up to five years in jail and up to $200,000 in fines, based on proposed changes to industry laws. Currently a financial adviser that is found guilty of breaching their fiduciary duty could be charged a ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
Dip buyers are coming out on top in the current financial market stakes. Perhaps they're even secretly hoping for a repeat of that 1.8 per cent one-day drop in the S&P 500 index late last month - back when Egyptians first tried to prise Pharaoh Mubarak's ...

Egypt not just another pyramid scheme

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
Economic uncertainty in the Middle East following uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt show how intertwined the global economy is with geopolitics, making more volatility the only certainty. First the background. According to a briefing note put out yesterday ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
The Australian dollar was slightly lower on Monday as finance markets moved away from risk assets in anti-government protests escalate in Egypt. At 0700 AEDT on Monday, the local unit was trading at 98.92 US cents, down from 99.01 cents on Friday. Since ...

Industry fund members switch to SMSFs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Industry funds are losing members to self-managed super funds, poor investment performance and lacklustre communication, research shows. An Investment Trends survey of 8,500 fund members found that nearly one in four industry fund members (23 per cent) ...

Converting to convertible bonds

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
With economies on both sides of the Atlantic faced with the dual threats of rising debt and deficits, and stubbornly high unemployment, economists and central bankers are divided as to whether the escalating prices of the late 1970's or a Japanese-style ...

Aussie planners should turn to Asia: Hockey

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
The shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, urges financial planners in Australia to expand their client base to Asia as the region's wealth continues to escalate. "I think Australian financial advisers are among the very best of the world," he said at an Association ...