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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
The Australian share market was half a per cent lower at noon following falls on Wall Street and losses for local resource companies. At 1200 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 23.3 points, or 0.54 per cent, at 4,300, while the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... points, or 1.41 per cent, at 12,986.58. The broader S&P 500 gained 18.85 points, or 1.38 per cent, to 1,387.56, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq climbed 39.09 points, or 1.3 per cent, to 3,055.55. Analysts said sentiment was helped by a surge in lending in ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
Australian stocks have opened slightly higher, driven by gains in the US overnight. At 1020 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 17.4 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 4,263.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 17.8 points ...

Treasury Group adds director

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
Former ANZ heavyweight and founder of the Centre for Investor Education, Melda Donnelly, has joined multi-boutique asset management business Treasury Group as an independent non-executive director. Effective since March 28, Donnelly was welcomed to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... at 12,929.59, down 130.55 points. The broad-market S&P 500 shed 15.88 points (1.14 per cent) to 1,382.20, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped 33.42 points (1.08 per cent) to 3,047.08. The weak US jobs report raised speculation that the Federal Reserve ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
Australian stocks have opened almost one per cent higher, driven by major resources stocks after the release of encouraging manufacturing data from China. At 1015 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/Index index was up 35 points, or 0.81 per cent, at 4,4370.2 ...

Advisers told to rethink growth asset allocations

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... prices and high-dividend blue-chip investment. "It's important to re-examine that traditional thinking of just being equity heavy, because if we do see another GFC-like crisis and Greece could be the catalyst for that, it's important to ensure portfolios ...

MySuper should engage with lifecycling: Cooper

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
Super funds will need to engage with lifecycling, rather than simply relying on rebranded default options, according to super heavyweight Jeremy Cooper. This was the message delivered to an industry forum yesterday by the chairman of retirement income ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
The Australian share market has followed offshore markets higher in opening trade, with investors encouraged by signs from US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that the US would keep interest rates low. At 1013 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... at the ASTRA 2012 conference in Sydney. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed lower, with mining stocks suffering heavy falls as investors fretted over fresh signs of a slowing Chinese economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 20.7 points ...