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Industry prepares for new advice era

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... serious headaches and profits during the adjustment period. The minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law, Chris Bowen, unveiled this week radical proposals to reform the planning industry following the findings of the Ripoll ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
What's wrong with Wall Street this time? There must be something in the water when solid corporate earnings result still gets it down. According to Bloomberg, more than 80 per cent of companies in the S&P 500 that have already reported their first quarter ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... The Australian share market is likely to open slightly lower on Tuesday after Wall Street closed flat amid positive corporate reports but weaker financial stocks. At 0752 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 10 ...

HOSTPLUS and ME drop Melbourne Storm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... believes in the principles of strong governance, transparency, integrity and fairness and we seek to ensure that all of our corporate and community partnerships uphold these same values," said Jamie McPhee, chief executive at ME Bank. This comes after ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... Australian stocks were more than one per cent weaker at noon as miners and financials weighed on the major indices and corporate downgrades affected other sectors. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 55.1 points, or 1.11 per cent, at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... Wednesday as a fresh bout of nerves over Greek debt rattled confidence again and offset the positive impact of strong US corporate results, dealers said. After a solid start, investors opted to take profits given the uncertainties over Greece as yields ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... for March. The Australian Office of Financial Management conducts an auction of $700 million of April 2020 bonds. In corporate news, miner BHP Billiton releases its third quarter production report, the appeal by nine senior officers of James Hardie Industries ...

Perennial eyes US recovery for next returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... of the sentiment and market environment. This comes after Murray was involved in what he considers one of the biggest corporate governance actions in the fund manager's 10-year history -- WesTrac. "Westrac is the most significant deal in terms of related ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... breached their duty of care with misleading statements about the adequacy of a compensation fund for asbestos victims and a corporate restructure in 2003. On Monday, the Australian share market closed lower after earlier falls on Wall Street following ...

Astarra pain spreads to super funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... default superannuation plans across all its business divisions. For example, the default fund for permanent employees is a corporate superannuation plan managed by AMP. In a written letter to the affected fund members, Tabcorp said that their super has ...