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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
The Australian market has opened higher following a dramatic turnaround on Wall Street in the final 15 minutes of trading. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index is up 66.6 points, or 1.7 per cent, at 3,938.7 and the broader All Ordinaries index is 65.1 points ...

Be glad for A$ weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... dropped from US$0.9786 on 15 July 2008 to US$0.6036 on 27 October 2008 when the global financial system was in chaos. In the minutes of its September Board meeting, the RBA said that, "Members noted that the high exchange rate was having a material effect ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... index futures contract was up 12 points at 4,106. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes from its September board meeting and the Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Index (BSI) for August is released. In equities ...

Conversation the key to speeding up SOA

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... intra-fund legislation much at all," said O'Sullivan. "Under defined scope super funds are able to produce SOAs within minutes of completing the fact-find, by using technology available to any planner. "This is a key strategy in how the technology reduces ...

Planning software's big five rated

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... assessment of comprehensive statement of advice (SoA) production with the average adviser still taking six hours and 42 minutes to produce one SoA with COIN users 15% producing comprehensive statements of advice quicker than the slowest software. Recep ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... following sharp losses on European exchanges, then bounced up and down and finally made a spectacular rally in the last few minutes of trading. Financial stocks were up, with Bank of America climbing 1.0 per cent after saying it would eliminate 30,000 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... Shanghai was also almost unchanged, edging up 0.75 points to 2,567.34. Wall Street eked out a third day of gains after minutes from the Federal Reserve policy-setting board's last meeting suggested new stimulus measures were likely as they showed members ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... from Tuesday's local close of $US1,796.15 per ounce. Wall Street closed higher as market players greeted positively the minutes of the US Federal Reserve, which raised hopes the central bank would act to further support the US economy. Also, futures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... 7.7 points, or 0.18 per cent, to 4,341.4. NEW YORK - US stocks closed with modest gains on Tuesday after newly released minutes from the Federal Reserve's key policy committee raised hopes that the Fed would act to boost the ailing economy. The Dow Jones ...

Behavioural finance pop quiz helps advisers communicate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... investment proclivities, according to resource provider innergi. Money Personality is a questionnaire that takes up to 5 minutes to complete. A report is then emailed to both client and adviser. Matt Linnert, co-founder of innergi, said there were challenges ...