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AMP, AXA and CFS planners choose own super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... from not-for-profit funds. "If you're not going to get commission or paid for it, why would you recommend it? That's a pretty logical conclusion," he said. On the technical side, Morris said it could also be associated with the difficulty for planners ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... Financial Group senior adviser Chris Kimber said the market was holding up after strong gains during the week. "That's pretty reasonable, but I don't think there's been a big lead from overnight," Mr Kimber said. "All the metals, which have been driving ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... soon as the numbers came out the market kicked on," Mr Foulsham said. "It certainly did make a difference to the market, pretty much across the board." Major miners outperformed the broader market throughout the morning, continuing on from gains the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... never know what will come out of left-field, but from what we've been through in the past three years, it's going to take a pretty savage negative to push the market backwards."

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... period, as of Wednesday. Including Thursday's losses, the market was still up about 5.4 per cent for the month. "We've had a pretty good run," he said. "It seems like only weeks ago we couldn't get past the 4,500 point level and now we've broken through ...

Double positive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... Chances are you'll probably hear this word exclaimed or printed in referencing Wall Street's performance last night. Am pretty sure only the die-hard bulls like moi - and some who weren't able to jump ship in August - were expecting a day like today. ...

More wealth mgmt on web

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... reduce their customer acquisition costs by 40 to 60 per cent through the use of live web events for lead generation. That is pretty compelling," she said. Other popular applications in the asset and wealth management space included market outlooks, educational ...

Market Wrap - Midmorning

MARKET WRAP - MIDDAY  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... figures in the US had already been revised downwards and if the data came in lower than the revision, it wasn't going to be pretty. "The whole macro-economic backdrop has really overshadowed the earnings season as well," he said. In the resources sector ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... we're basically sitting flat here today," Mr Manley said. "The big drag is obviously BHP but I think the market has had a pretty good run in four days and it's probably just having a little bit of a breather across most of the major stocks." Mr Manley ...

GFC not over, but opportunities abundant: TRG

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... reasonably good job of it. [It's] one of the reasons why Asia's so strong at the moment," he said. "During the GFC, the US pretty much did the opposite and refused to take the pain." On the other hand, Lynn Thornton, fund manager at Aubrey Capital Management ...