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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street which rallied after several companies reported higher earnings. At 0645 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 40 points at 5,303. Time Warner ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following strong gains on Wall Street ahead of a much-watched US labour market report and amid mixed trade and labour data. At 0901 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 37 ...

Irish luck unlocked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014

AllianceBernstein appoints new CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2013
AllianceBernstein has appointed Jen Driscoll to the role of chief executive, Australia and New Zealand. Driscoll is currently co-head of global client relations, a role she will continue to hold alongside that of chief executive. Driscoll joined AllianceBernstein ...

Think Holden, think not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
OMG! They killed Kenny...errr, Holden. Australia would be watching Holden's tail lights as it drives its car-making business out of Australia in 2017, Holden managing director Mike Devereux announced yesterday. This is because, like a spoiled brat ...

UFS adopts Rubik's 'Bank in a Box' technology

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
... flexible enough to adapt to our long term plans, and delivered by a credible company with which we have grown a strong bond." Ken Carr, Rubik Managing Director Banking, said he expects the uptake of the Bank in a Box technology to increase over the next ...

Investors complacent of inflation risk

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
Investors should prepare their portfolios for rising prices now, before the price of inflation protection products soars, a senior QIC portfolio manager has warned. With global economic conditions improving, central banks are expected to start unwinding ...

Tapering still some way off

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013
... US cannot withstand higher interest rates, according to a leading fund manager. Western Asset co-chief investment officer Ken Leech says the recent market sell-off in anticipation of tapering was an over-reaction. This view was reinforced by the Fed's ...

FPA confronts advisers with their worst nightmare

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has confronted advisers at the annual Conference with the case of a young disabled woman who took $800,000 to a financial planner and lost it all due to bad advice. The client became disabled after a car accident ...

In search of more female advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013
There are too few female financial advisers and the AFA national conference is canvassing ways to do something about it. The first step was recognising that there aren't enough women working in the financial services industry and, especially, in financial ...