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New data questions SMSF inflows

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
New data indicates SMSF net inflows may be decelerating, both in terms of dollars and as a percentage of average assets, raising questions about whether the market has reached its peak. Andrew Baker, managing partner of Tria Investment Partners, identified ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... been removed, so the local market is trading higher, Benny Sada, senior equity analyst at Australian Stock Report, said. "The big theme is the situation with Europe as it has been for the last six to 12 months, and with that Greek vote today clearing ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
"Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones." - The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster The optimism that warmed financial markets for the best part of the first six weeks of 2012 has been dented by the comeback of the European sovereign ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open almost half a per cent lower as jittery investors await the outcome of the Greek parliament's crucial vote on a 130-billion-euro ($A160 billion) bailout deal to stave off bankruptcy. At 0630 AEDT on Monday ...

Fixed asset allocation outdated: Schroders

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... price appreciation and the other was pushing interest rates down. That's an environment conducive to equities," he said. The big question mark posed by Schroders is the inevitable slowdown in China. While the Sino Boom has insulated the Australian economy ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
The Australian share market has opened firmer as traders await a busy Thursday for local earnings reports. At 1015 AEDT on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 18.7 points, or 0.44 per cent, at 4,292.9, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

The majority is wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
"Baby what a big surprise Right before my very eyes" - Chicago Yesterday we became witnesses on how the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) disproved the saying that, "the majority is always right". It kept the country's official cash rate unchanged at ...

HFT and dark pools keep ASIC on its toes

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
High frequency trading and dark pools are the biggest issues of contention in the Australian Securities and Investment Commission's extended consultation process on market integrity rules, according to one industry expert. Australian Securities and ...

Commissioner urges action on super savings

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
With women predicted to live to the average age of 95, Susan Ryan AO, Age Discrimination Commissioner spoke with super funds yesterday about the role they can play to protect ageing Australians. Speaking at Women in Super event, Ryan said superannuation ...

Waiting for the RBA to dance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... reductions haven't been fully transmitted into the economic system as of yet. Give it time. Just as well, because given the big four Australian banks' declaration in recent days - that they might not be able to pass on in full any RBA rate reductions ...