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FPA disciplines 13 members

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
The Financial Planning Association has taken action against 13 of its members for breaches of the organisation's professional standard. FPA had investigated 130 members for alleged breaches from January to March this year. Four members were expelled ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after US stocks gained overnight on a stronger-than-expected Midwestern business activity report. Resource stocks may decline after base metal prices declined overnight. At 0700 AEDT on the Sydney ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower after US stocks and base metals prices declined on Friday. At 0804 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index futures contract was down 49 points to 5,380. In company news today ...

Cash is still king

Despite growing evidence that Australian equities are cheaper due to the credit crisis, there are more fund managers parking their funds in cash today compared to three months ago. Russell's quarterly Australian Investment Manager Outlook (IMO) survey ...

FTSE war on terror

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
Global index firm FTSE Group has chosen to wage its own battle against terrorism by launching a new terror-free index. FTSE has teamed up with terror-free investment screening house Conflict Securities Advisory Group to launch the FTSE CSAG Terror-Free ...

US confidence down and up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
Consumer confidence in the US has fallen to a five-year low, driven by unrelenting negative economic news and the impact on consumption of the perpetually falling US dollar. But institutional investor confidence is up. The consumer confidence survey ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
Postmortem into what caused the sub-prime fiasco is pointing the finger at the investment banks, hedge funds and even the apparent hero Dr Greenspan. The main problem, according to a just-released book titled The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money ...

MFS breaches $184m loan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
MFS Premium Income Fund is engaging the Bank of Scotland in talks following a multi-million dollar loan facility breach. The fund's auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers notes the fund has breached a loan facility of $184 million with third party bank, the ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
Australian stocks were 2.8 per cent lower at noon on a shortened trading day as big falls in the price of oil and gold and weaker industrial metal prices hammered resources stocks. The financials sector also was weaker after speculation that top-three ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower following slides in commodity prices, particularly oil and gold, while investors in New York took profits following the US Federal Reserve-induced rally on Tuesday. Crude oil fell almost $US5 on ...