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Accountants attack planners over naming rights

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
An industry turf war has erupted after accountants said they want the Federal Government to dump adviser requests to restrict the term 'financial planner'. The National Institute of Accountants (NIA) fired the first shots yesterday, saying moves to ...

Yikes the ECB hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... inflation expectations "anchored" to its 2 per cent target ceiling. The bank would not be held hostage or cowered into holding fire because of the lingering crisis in the Eurozone periphery. The ECB believes that its recent move - along with individual ...

Rising oil prices add to sovereign risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... vulnerability assessment after blasts rocked Moamar Gaddafi's Tripoli compound this morning. As explosions and anti-aircraft fire rocked the Libyan capital, brent crude prices rose to US$114.86 per barrel. Sustained high oil prices potentially affect ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... record 15 trillion Monday to soothe markets and ensure firms can access cash. But sentiment was tempered by news of a fresh fire at the plant northeast of Tokyo and white clouds billowing from one of the reactors, while the government said it had temporarily ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... slumped on Tuesday with Tokyo shedding more than 10 per cent as Japan's nuclear crisis deepened after two more blasts and a fire at an atomic power plant. Eyes were on the troubled Fukushima No.1 complex where four reactors had suffered explosions. The ...

T. Rowe Price to expand Aus equities team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
The local arm of global fund manager T. Rowe Price is on a hiring spree, with plans to recruit three Australian equities analysts ahead of its launch of a domestic equities product later this year. T. Rowe Price today appointed Viral Patel, formerly ...

ASIC clampdown on poor business models in advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... against financial advice groups that have turned complacent on their compliance and dispute resolution policies. Coming under fire this year, in what is referred to as a 'lite touch' business model, are licensees which: are using one-size-fits-all business ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices flat, while precious metals were higher and oil eased. On the ASX 24 at 0837 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was two points ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... speculation. The immediate implication this is that the British central bank needs to lift interest rates to hose the inflation fire down. Financial markets now expect a rate hike as early as May. However, BOE Governor King (how good is that King and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... results, set to be released after market close on Thursday. "That Rio report this afternoon is something that's going to fire up the market a little bit as the day progresses," he said. Rio also announced it has extended the offer period of its takeover ...