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Insurance broker pleads guilty to theft

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
Insurance broker Bruce Wickett pleaded guilty to stealing close to $700,000 of clients' money over a seven month period. Wickett of Frankston, Victoria, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court charged with three counts of theft totalling $662,198.39 ...

New chair at Australian Ethical

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
Australian Ethical Investment chairman AndrA(C) Morony has decided to stand down from February 2013 with the board electing Steve Gibbs to replace him. Morony will stay on as an ordinary member of the board to help with the transition process. "During ...

AMP launches new iPad app for advisers

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
AMP has launched an iPad application for its Financial Advice Network advisers that it said is integrated with their back-office systems. Today AMP said that it had launched Evolve, an iPad app featuring advice tools that are fully integrated with advisers' ...

"Others" are still fearful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
Phew! What a relief it is, don't you think? A few more weeks (ok, ok, maybe months) of continued equity market gains and I would have yelled, "irrational exuberance!" Sure, sure, I've been trumpeting the improvements in the major and lesser economies ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... Monday closed weaker, with investors unwilling to push the bourse to 5000 points without new good economic news. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 13.6 points, or 0.28 per cent weaker at 4,907.5, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... 14,009.79, up 149.21 points (1.08 per cent). In Europe, London's FTSE 100 index of top companies gained 1.12 per cent to close at 6,347.24 points as a slight expansion in manufacturing in January and positive quarterly results for telecoms firm BT cheered ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... returned to its two-week bull run as investors, buoyed by a positive US earnings season, turned to high-yielding stocks. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had risen 42.3 points, or 0.87 per cent, at 4,921.1 points, and the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite falls on Wall Street and many European bourses overnight with investors still unnerved by US gross domestic figures. Investors were surprised by the US Commerce Department figures showing the world's ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
The Australian share market is relatively flat despite a fall on Wall Street overnight. At 1032 AEDT on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 2.4 points, or 0.05 per cent, at 4,894.3, and the broader All Ordinaries index was down 2.9 points ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite falls on Wall Street after data showed that the US economy contracted in the fourth quarter last year. At 0630 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up seven points ...