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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2006
The share market should open stronger today after a sharp fall in crude oil prices led to gains on Wall Street overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up 36 points to 4933.0 at 0712 AEST. Today the Westpac-Melbourne ...

Platinum re-brands to Sentry

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2006
Adviser group Platinum has been renamed Sentry Group on the back of a business and corporate restructure. Sentry Group managing director, Murray Hills, said the re-branding will help differentiate the group from other Platinum's in the market. The name ...

ESS manager moves to Vision

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2006
Emergency Services Super (ESS) will lose its recently appointed general manager of marketing and business development to a competitor industry fund next month. Chris Artis, will head to Vision Super, after departing ESS on August 18 to take up a role ...

Former NSW Treasurer joins HOSTPLUS

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2006
HOSTPLUS has announced that a former NSW Treasurer and Opposition Leader has been appointed to the board as an independent director. The Honourable Peter Collins AM QC joins the nine member HOSTPLUS board and brings to the organisation his diverse experience ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2006
The stock market is expected to open lower, following sharp falls on offshore markets overnight amid worries over North Korea's test-firing of missiles. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was down 41 points to 5051 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2006
The stock market is expected to make a quiet start to trading following a US public holiday and ahead of a local announcement on interest rates. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was steady at 5102 points at 0802 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2006
The market is expected to open lower following mixed base and precious metal prices overnight. Holiday-shortened trading on the US share market and the closure of the US mercantile market ahead of the July 4 public holiday will leave the local bourse ...

Westpac FP launches $500k super campaign

Westpac Financial Planning has launched a marketing campaign designed to help their existing clients realise the extra incentives to save for their retirement on the back of Treasurer Costello's proposed 2006 super reforms. In what is its first major ...

FPA preps members on conflicts of interest principles

Against the view that many financial planners are putting their own paycheque before their clients' best interests, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has issued a guide designed to help their members manage potential conflicts of interest. The ...

New appointment for APRA board

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2006
Treasurer Peter Costello has appointed a new APRA board member to replace the outgoing Stephen Somogyi. John Trowbridge will join the board for three years, starting almost immediately from 1 July. In a statement issued by the Treasurer's office, Costello ...