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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... Engineering giant WorleyParsons has cut its profit guidance to between $320 million and $340 million because of delays to major resources projects. As a result WorleyParsons shares plunged $2.92, or 13.1 per cent, to $19.37. MacMahon Holdings also fell ...

Planner numbers drop on FoFA changes

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... De Gori. He said that it could be due to structural changes. "There is lots pressure from regulatory change, the GFC and major product failures such as Westpoint which have affected the reputation of planners," he said. De Gori also pointed the fact ...

Retirement objective is income not performance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... US research is that most members have surprisingly similar investment and retirement objectives. This highlights how "the major type of investment risk that is embedded into retirement plans is equity risk," Schaus said. Reinforcing this is that most ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... Billiton lost 11 cents to $33.92, Rio Tinto dived 53 cents to $55.24 and Fortescue tumbled six cents to $3.53. The four major banks all opened in positive territory. Commonwealth Bank surged 79 cents to $73.44, National Australia Bank jumped 14 cents ...

'Product agnostic' netwealth announces record growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013

Study highlights honesty of LinkedIn users

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
Only 24% of financial services execs regard information posted on LinkedIn as trustworthy, according to a study released this week. The study, carried out by recruitment agency Robert Half, polled 150 chief executives and finance directors in Hong Kong. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... territory. Primary Health Care jumped 10 cents to $5.13, CSL surged $1.44 to $64.64 and Cochlear gained $1.04 to $73.67. The four major banks also opened higher. Commonwealth Bank leapt 71 cents to $72.80, after it said its third quarter profits were ...

Budget gets nod of approval from industry bodies

JAMES FERNYHOUGH, MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... Superannuation industry bodies have responded positively to last night's federal budget, generally agreeing that there were no major surprises. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive Pauline Vamos praised the government ...

No middle ground post-FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... would be seeing a normal cycle." Netwealth managing director Michael Heine added that "dealer groups are going through a major change, as an adviser, you either have to be very big or very small and being in the middle ground is going to be very hard." ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... 1,633.70, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index increased 27.41 (0.80 per cent) to 3,436.58. The gains came amid a lack of major US economic data, with stocks like Gap and Priceline advancing after favourable earnings news. LONDON - European stock ...