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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower today, after US markets fell for the fifth straight day while the US searches for a solution to its debt crisis. At 0649 AEST on the ASX 24, the September share price index futures contract was nine ...

Carbon tax ready companies to produce profits

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
The renewable energy market is already posting gains on the share market since the carbon tax announcement with Ceramic Fuel Cells and Carnegie Wave Energy up around 15% and 20%, respectively, above Friday's closing price while Geodynamics is up 25% ...

Advisers turn from managed funds to ETFs: BetaShares

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
The rise of exchange traded funds (ETF) is putting pressure on active fund managers and attracting financial advisers, according to a new ETF report released today. The BetaShares/Investment Trends ETF Report predicts that ETF investor numbers will ...

Pollies clash over SG

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
Politicians are exchanging words over the move to raise superannuation guarantee (SG) from 9 to 12 per cent with assistant treasurer Bill Shorten calling the Coalition's attitude towards superannuation "belligerent". Speaking at a union's investment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
The Australian market has received mixed to negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall St closing lower in a late drop just before the markets closed. At 0726 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was flat at ...

Financial services feel cloud benefit

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... capital allocation to managed solutions with 55 per cent of those interviewed spending more in that area. Unsurprisingly, the poll found that financial technology executives want the ability to process data quicker, cheaper and more reliably through ...

Macquarie top mandate catchers

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... Advisers snapped up the largest amount of mandates by value in 2010, with $9.4 billion worth of new business putting it in poll position ahead of Russell Group on $3.3 billion, Mandate Chaser said. Macquarie Group came third with its new mandates for ...

May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... retaliatory attacks after Obama confirmed Osama's demise. But back to May and going away. Reuters' monthly asset allocation poll - a "survey of leading investors in US, Britain, Japan and Continental Europe" - showed investors not waiting for May to ...

Market volatility making boomers nervous

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... are becoming increasing concerned about the effect of market volatility on traditional investments, according to a MetLife poll. MetLife's Market Volatility Poll, conducted in February of this year, included 520 financial advisors and 1,038 US adults ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... months of the impact of the earthquake and tsunami. The result compared with the median forecast for a 1.1-per cent fall in a poll of economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires and the Nikkei. The Japanese trade figures weighed against relief that MPs ...