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Guardian Advice unveils mentoring and equity partnership program

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
Boutique advice network Guardian Advice seeks to attract young advisers and help them start their professional career through a mentoring program and an equity partnership that will be announced within the next eight weeks. Guardian advisers' average ...

Brazilian CB might need to stop shaving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
Phew! We got passed that air pocket so easily, didn't we now? Equities are once again flying high. Never mind the still inconclusive Italian elections because judging from last night's Italian bond auction, financial markets aren't really that scared. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... per cent, at 3,162.26. The positive trading came after durable goods orders for January sank by 5.2 per cent because of a big drop in aircraft orders. However, excluding transportation orders, which can be volatile month-over-month, new durable goods ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... drop in first half profit due to restructuring costs. Its shares were down 33.5 cents, or 3.1 per cent, at $10.565. The four big banks were slightly higher, with Commonwealth the best performer, up 51.5 cents at $65.985. Mining companies were relatively ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... Friday. Tokyo tumbled 2.26 per cent, or 263.71 points, to 11,398.81, with profit-takers moving in after the index enjoyed a big surge on Monday. Sydney shed 1.03 per cent, or 52.2 points, to 5,003.6, and Seoul lost 0.47 per cent, or 9.51 points, to close ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
The Australian sharemarket has opened almost 1.5 per cent weaker as former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's strong electoral showing sparked fears of eurozone instability. At 1026 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 75.1 ...

Fear is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
Wall Street dropped big time overnight. Thank goodness for that. The S&P 500 index closed 1.8% lower last night. This is the biggest daily fall since the 2.4% drop registered on 7/11/2012 - the time when markets were neck-deep with worries. At the time ...

Online risk applications surpass paper-based: Asteron Life

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... Zelman, director at Lifescope Solutions and the founder of a very active LinkedIn network for tech-savvy advisers. He is a big fan of web-based social tools such as Dropbox, Google Docs, Skype and Google Hangouts. "Some of these technological tools make ...

Aussie stocks best value for 25 years

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... market, according to AllianceBernstein chief investment officer Roy Maslen. AllianceBernstein is the latest of a swathe of big name asset managers to declare its renewed confidence in the equity market after a strong 2012. Maslen says that, recent stock ...

Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... borrow from Neil Young, "My my, hey hey," seems like rock n' roll is here to stay 'ey? You know what I mean. It's the S&P 500's big back-to-back corrections on Wednesday (down 1.2%) and Thursday (down 0.6%) last week that, in turn, sent other stock markets ...