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SA posts record planner growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
The number of financial planners recruited in South Australia have risen over the past year eclipsing the growth rate in other states, according to eJobs Financial Planning. The survey found that the number of financial planner job advertisements in ...

Bear claws and database gremlins

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
Panicked bear-phobic investors and a dodgy database sent our market half way to a crash just before 2pm yesterday in one of its biggest losses in seven years. Not officially a Bear market, yesterday's mauling still managed to erase all of the gains ...

Active fund tax burden costs 4pc of returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
The extra tax burden of active investing could cost up to $38,000 for a top marginal tax bracket investor with $500,000 in investments, according to Vanguard research. Vanguard's head of retail Robin Bowerman said that while super funds enjoyed concessional ...

Risky business

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
Forget loss of appetite, investors seem to have become risk-phobic resulting in equities along with the Aussie dollar suffering another hammering. In a race to the bottom of the pool, the S&P/ASX200 plummeted 9.9 per cent from June's peak, the Nikkei ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2007
The Australian dollar was weaker at noon, continuing its recent slide against both the US dollar and Japanese yen on the back of a lack in investor confidence. At 1200 AEST, the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.8317/23, down from yesterday's close ...

Corporates ride market turbulence

Despite continuing market turbulence, there are no fasten safety belts signs to observe as Australia's economic and corporate performance indicators remains strong. CommSec is optimistic regarding this reporting season, "Certainly in a big picture sense ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2007
In Sydney, the Australian share market is expected to open to sharp declines after further drops on Wall Street. At 0708 AEST, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index was down 77 points or 1.29 per cent to 5887. In economic news ...

Battling the bears

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
Investors' appetite for risk has been spoiled by fears of a global credit crunch, however the share market yesterday saw savvy investors snapping up banking and construction sector bargains. US markets finished up essentially where they started after ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
In Sydney, the Australian share market is expected to open higher as a neutral Wall Street and higher base metal prices offer no strong negative lead. At 0811 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index was up 40 points to 6,037 ...

QIC invests in UK pure alpha fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
QIC has awarded a $250 million mandate to UK-based asset manager Henderson Global Investors' Global Equity multi-strategy fund. The fund is a pure alpha strategy using fundamental, liquidity, relative value and event driven strategies, with a yearly ...