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Planners hungry for geared investments - Westpac

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Financial advisers are stepping up their interest in gearing linked products, according to Westpac, which recently completed an investor road show across Australia. The roadshow attracted over 700 advisers, as well as some of their clients, with high ...

Leveraged ETF risk laid bare

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Morningstar's co-head of fund research Tim Murphy caused a stir at the research firm's investment conference when he showed the risks of US-style synthetic ETFs at a panel session in Sydney on Friday. Tom Keenan of iShares Australia and Graham Smith ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
The Australian market is likely to decline on Monday after US equities fell about one per cent and the price of gold and some base metals declined. At 0734 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was down 35 points at 4,678 points. ...

AUI to draw planners with new property ratings

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) plans to use recent positive research ratings on its Diversified Property Fund to attract financial planners and retail investors to its $40 million rights issue, due to close on June 30. The Diversified Property Fund ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
The Australian market has recovered slightly in opening trade on Friday, following a recovery on Wall Street in both commodities and equities. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 4.5 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 4,700.8 points, while the broader All ...

TOWER completes share sale

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Life insurer TOWER Australia announced that shares held by the company and its shareholders have now been transferred to TAL Dai-ichi Life Group. TOWER, which will be renamed TAL in November, said in a statement to the ASX that shareholders will be ...

Apostle Asset builds distrib team

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Apostle Asset Management is building their distribution team as it prepares to capitalise on investor's renewed interest in equities. The investment manager has appointed Greg Johnson as director of sales to expand its distribution team. "With the recover ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Rising inflation. Sagging earnings. Sliding oil price. They were the culprits! They sucker punched Wall Street down to its knees while we were sleeping. No Virginia, not again. Don't tell me that just days after the "no one can deny" good news brought ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
The Australian market has opened strongly following upbeat performances in markets broadly overnight. At 1034 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 45.3 points higher at 4,771.1, while the broader All Ordinaries index had also risen 45.3 points to ...

Bloomberg Tradebook taps into research vein

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Bloomberg Tradebook has released new client-focused programs in a bid to build up its research offerings, with a focus on transparency and client access to information. Available to their Australian clients, the global agency broker has introduced an ...