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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... Germany and France had agreed to raise the European Financial Stability Facility to two trillion euros are "totally wrong". Debate on the size of the bailout fund continues and will likely last into the weekend, the source told Dow Jones. "The next few ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... lower house and was expected to pass the Senate, had also given investors a bit more certainty after a lengthy political debate. "Uncertainty tends to build when nobody knows whether something's going to happen or not, and now that it's actually going ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
Regular gentle readers would know by now that today's heading has in no way any relation to the 1995 romance film of the same title but to the goings-on in the financial markets. Equity markets didn't do much overnight. The S&P 500 was up a little ...

The good, the bad and the whatever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
Wake up people, there's no time to let Monday-itis get the better of us - especially not this Monday. Not when there's news a -plenty to digest. There's good news to stir the animal spirits among the bulls... bad news to keep the bears on the pounce... ...

Call for realism on planner services

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... service and cost becomes more tangible. According to Philip Galagher, head of wealth management at Equity Trustees, the debate around adviser fees and commissions has wrongly skirted around the issue of improving clients understanding of what they can ...

MLC head calls for truce after laying blame at industry funds door

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... the sector. "While industry funds are a relevant and viable option for many Australians, their contribution to the super debate has, at times, been unhelpful and divisive and serves to undermine trust in a system which is largely operating well. "The ...

Vanguard tops US social media rankings

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... The US branch of Vanguard has topped a survey of asset managers who were ranked for their prowess in social media, with debate about the medium's impact in Australia's wealth management raging on. Kasina, a specialist research group, rated asset managers ...

FOFA levels playing field: ANZ Wealth

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... will ultimately unite everyone, even the industry funds and retail sector agree super is important. We have to lift the debate to look at the future of underinsurance and super situations, talk about things in the national interest. Those are the way ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... admittedly a large figure by global standards, mining's contribution is often misunderstood - indeed during the ensuing debate over the various incarnations of the mining tax one of the most bizarre aspects was how little good quality official economic ...

Behaviour key to increased insurance sales

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... as well as improving the reputation of the industry, according to MetLife senior vice president, Joe Jordan. With fierce debate surrounding commissions on life insurance and what impact their absence would have on Australia's already under-insured population ...