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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
The Australian share market has received generally positive leads from overnight trading, with all three key Wall Street indices finishing higher, along with oil and gold. At 0734 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index ...

Actuaries call for advice 'stress test'

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
The Institute of Actuaries of Australia is calling for the introduction of a 'personal stress test' that would measure the impact of adverse events on a person's financial position to be part of the advice process. As part of its submission to the Ripoll ...

Active members can cause asset allocation headache

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
Financial literacy and a push for more Australians to be engaged with superannuation will have a profound effect on super fund asset allocations, said one industry body. Speaking at an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) event, David ...

E*Trade and Praemium in biggest tax report rollout

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
ASX-listed Australian portfolio administration provider Praemium Limited has completed its largest deployment of tax reports to date with the release of E*TRADE's Tax Tool Standard service to its customers. The service was deployed to all E*TRADE active ...

ADB pours $240m to worst hit nations

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
Armenia, Georgia and Tajikistan may still be foreign territories for international fund managers - but a large Asian bank has pumped $240 million into the countries in a move that will help them and subsequently their neighbours, boost their investment ...

State Super members hungry for advice

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
More than two out of five members of the $29 billion State Super have sought financial planning advice in the last two years, the fund's membership survey shows. State Super, which had $29 billion in funds under management at the end of June according ...

Zurich names new global head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
Zurich Financial Services has appointed the firm's chief investment officer Martin Senn as chief executive at the start of next year as the existing chief executive retires. Aside from his role as chief investment officer, Senn also sits on the firm's ...

Trustees must not be victimised: APRA

APRA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
The chief executive of an employer association is facing criminal prosecution for allegedly sacking two employees who were trustees of the association's super fund because they didn't renew an outsourcing contract the fund had with the association. ...

ASIC approves Opes Prime settlement

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... potential claim for compensation due to an alleged contravention of the managed investment provisions of the Corporations Act (the Act) by Opes Prime and alleged involvement in the contravention by ANZ and Merrill Lynch. The second potential claim was ...

Advisers put LPTs back on watchlist

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
The increasing numbers of capital raisings and a bounce back in value of the LPT sector is drawing more advisers to LPTs again. Linden Toll, executive director at LMW Invest, said while retail investors are still wary about returning to the LPT market ...