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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
The Australian share market lost ground in intra-day trading, which was dominated by defensive plays as investors lost appetite for risk and rotated out of material and energy stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 12.8 points ...

Investec fund doubles portfolio in 12 months

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... class to match their liability profile such as pension funds and insurance companies." In March 2011 the Fund completed a sale leaseback of a Boeing B737-800 aircraft on lease with Australia's Virgin Blue and as part of its portfolio, the Fund now has ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
The Australian sharemarket was lower at noon on Tuesday, pulled back by mining and energy stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 46 points, or 0.93 per cent, at 4,925.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had dropped ...

Financial planners to improve soft skills

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Financial planners can now learn behavioural skills to help them sell insurance to clients through a new training course offered by AXA. The Risk Learning Program has two main components, one that teaches advisers to discuss life, TPD and income protection ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with securities markets flat to lower, while metals were mixed and oil fell. At 0716 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 20 points lower ...

Premium appoints former Aust Ethical sales head

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
Premium Wealth Management has named Paul Harding-Davis, previously the head of sales and marketing at Australian Ethical Investment, as general manager. Harding-Davis will start later this month and takes over the role vacated by Jeremy Wardell, who ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... Leighton Holdings said it expected to post a full year loss of $427 million and planned to raise $757 million in a new share sale. Leighton was in a trading halt and last traded at $28.94. "It looked as though everyone has brushed the Leighton forecast ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... contract was five points lower at 4,933. It's a quite day ahead in economics news, with the only item scheduled being the sale by the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) of $700 million of June 2016 bonds. In equities, the case between Seven ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight. Key securities markets were higher, oil reached a new record, and metals also rose. At 0714 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was four points ...

Big mandates, big risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
The wealth management industry should look at sovereign wealth clients as a potential frozen asset risk, an analyst from Colonial First State told Financial Standard yesterday. With civil war raging in Libya and tensions continuing to erupt across the ...