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Macquarie arms advisers with online cash tool

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
Macquarie Wrap has launched an online cash management tool to help advisers track clients' balances and manage investments more efficiently. The idea behind the platform is to enable advisers, under clients' instructions, to ensure that sufficient cash ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
The Australian market is expected to open firmer on Wednesday, following positive leads from offshore trading overnight. At 0738 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 31 points higher at 4,826 points. In economics news ...

Derivatives sky high since SGX fall

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
Derivatives trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has reached its highest point ever, just weeks after the failed takeover bid by the Singapore Exchange (SGX). According to figures released by the ASX, the number of derivatives contracts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices all finishing over one per cent lower. Gold and silver were higher, but oil slumped. At 0716 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share ...

Planners needle minister over FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten fielded prickly questions from financial planners after giving a speech on the Future of Financial Advice reforms at a luncheon gathering yesterday. Minister Shorten told the Financial Planning Association (FPA) ...

FPA calls for naming rights

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
The Financial Planning Association has asked Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten to restrict the term 'Financial Planner' to members of an approved professional association only - and he has agreed to take it on board. The Association (FPA) has ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
The Australian share market lost ground in intra-day trading, which was dominated by defensive plays as investors lost appetite for risk and rotated out of material and energy stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 12.8 points ...

La Trobe buys super specialists IE Group

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
National mortgage lender and funds management firm La Trobe Financial Services has bought third party financial services firm, Implementation Efficiency Group (IEG). Greg O'Neill, chief executive of Melbourne-based La Trobe, said the purchase had been ...

Life insurance consuming dormant super fund balances

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
More than 25 per cent of dormant superannuation accounts have active life insurance policies causing balances to dwindle through unnecessary fees, new figures show but financial planners can help. According to research house Rice Warner, just over 12 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
Australian stocks were firmer at noon, with the energy and gold sectors leading the market higher. However, stocks pulled back from their morning peak as banking stocks dipped into red figures by noon. At 1210 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was ...