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Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Don't look now but the debate as to what letter of the alphabet the global recovery will take - U, V or W - could all turn out to be wrong. It could be an L with the horizontal part of the letter longer and downward sloping. Trust politicians to try ...

FSA fines firm for bad advice

FSA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
UK-based Financial Services Authority (FSA) fined a financial advice firm $27,000 for failing to match client appetite for risk with appropriate investment products. The regulator found the Henry Neil practice advised clients to sell segments of existing ...

PPM opens fund to more Australians

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
Boutique investment manager Private Portfolio Managers (PPM) is opening its doors to more investors through the PPM York Super Fund. PPM currently offers tailored individually managed accounts (IMA) investment strategies to investors looking to invest ...

Property still in favour

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
Planners with clients looking to rejig their asset allocation take note - more than 70 per cent of consumers are preferring property over shares, figures from Archicentre show. A snap consumer poll by Archicentre, the building advisory service of the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open higher on Friday following strong gains on Wall Street and among commodity prices. At 0706 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 42 points higher at 4607. In economic ...

Mercer wins ANZ Staff Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
The $2 billion ANZ Australian Staff Superannuation Scheme has dropped Russell Employee Benefits for Mercer as its administration provider. In a press statement released today, the fund announced it had selected Mercer to provide administration and member ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open in positive territory on Monday after a gains on Wall Street and world markets on Friday. At 0717 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 38 points higher at 4465. ...

Future Fund books 4.2pc loss

FUTURE FUND UPDATE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
The Future Fund rode the latest quarter market recovery when it gained 5.1 per cent in the three months to June, but posted a 4.2 per cent loss for the financial year (ex Telstra). The fund's Telstra shares of around two billion gained 4.9 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open higher after US stocks and metals prices gained overnight. At 0724 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 28 points higher at 4460. In economic news on Friday ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Like everywhere else around the globe, Japan's equity markets have rebounded from the extreme pessimism that marked the low point of the global financial crisis back in March 2009. At the end of August, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 48.7 per cent ...