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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
The Australian share market recovered ground this morning after an overnight rally on Wall St, but is bracing for an anticipated interest rate rise tomorrow. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had gained 55 points to 5975.2 while the All Ordinaries ...

AFS renews Oasis contract

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... and independence is attracting new advisers to their growing national network. "The market for platform services such as ours that can be adapted and personalised continues to grow and is of immense interest to dealer groups interested in developing ...

Economic round-up: Cheeseburger bill meets fat tax

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2007
Where legislation fails taxation often takes over and, following on from the cheeseburger bill, UK doctors and the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit are now debating a fat tax. And what in the name of Ronald Macdonald is a 'Cheeseburger Bill'? When it's ...

AFA conference to focus on world-class practice

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2007
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) today unveiled the program for its 2007 National Conference, with the theme of building a world-class advice business. Held 14-16 October at the Crowne Plaza Royal Pines on the Gold Coast, the program includes ...

Economic round-up: Circle your wagons

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
While we continue to ride the resources boom, it seems that our cash starved infrastructure is beginning to hit the country's coffers where it hurts - in the mining sector. Hundreds of wagons once used to transport Queensland coal are lying idle throughout ...

HESTA joins better research alliance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
Industry fund HESTA has joined the Enhanced Analytics Initiative (EAI), an international collaboration that rewards analysts and brokers for greater depth and breadth of research and the inclusion of factors such as corporate governance, human capital ...

A new way for AMP fixed interest

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
AMP Capital Investors has awarded boutique manager Vianova Asset Management a $75 million mandate for a part of the fixed interest component of its AMP Future Directions Fund. The mandate highlights how more people are looking at fixed interest again ...

DeAM sets sights firmly on alternatives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
In a bold strategic move, Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) is positioning itself to stride ahead of all comers in the alternatives space and has agreed to sell its Australian equities and fixed income businesses to Aberdeen Asset Management for around ...

Ord Minnett STRIPES steps up the pace in Asia

... wholesale only but not in retail [mums-and-dads investors]. What we're going to see is the same evolution where products [like ours] will become available to retail investors," said Lewin. Michelle Baltazar

Time to talk about asset classes: MTAA Super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
Rapidly evolving investment attitudes to using risk criteria when assembling portfolios is challenging conservative and out-dated views about how we categorise assets, said Paul Watson, deputy executive director of award winning industry fund MTAA Super. ...