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Rewind and replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
Nothing new. It's the same old song. If only this space allows for instant replay, it would be easier to ask you to rewind, then simply playback my past ruminations. Wall Street inched up overnight, but not so convincingly. So why is this? Why? Why? ...

Birth of the iPad adviser

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
Dealer group Synchron's training conference next month for its financial advisers will be run entirely on an iPad, setting a technological milestone in the planning industry. Some 50 financial advisers who are attending the group's Next Generation Training ...

Realindex tops $2bn in FUM

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
Realindex, a Colonial First State subsidiary, announced it has surpassed $2 billion in funds under management, barely two years after launching. Andrew Francis, the company's chief executive, told Financial Standard that a recent Australian equities ...

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
Glum has entered the building. Remember him? The teenie weenie Lilliputian in Gulliver's Travels who when faced with a predicament - any predicament - exclaims, "We'll never make it! We're doomed!" So it is with Wall Street and its view of the US economy ...

Food security back on the radar

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... also having an effect. "The average wage is improving to the point that people are earning more than what is required for basic living, therefore they are demanding more. Times this by a few billion and that puts a huge strain on the world's agricultural ...

Snowball stays on track

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
Snowball Group Limited saw funds under management and advice rise 19 per cent to $4.8 billion and management is planning for a busy year ahead. Snowball announced that its underlying NPAT up 2 per cent to $6.2 million, while its funds under management ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
The Australian stock market was marginally higher at noon on Wednesday, with strong profit results driving higher share prices. But the market was weighed down by losses in BHP Billiton shares. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 1.6 ...

OC Funds unveils distribution strategy, appoints Purpura

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
OC Funds Management has appointed Peter Purpura, former managing director of Fisher Graham Financial, as its head of retail distribution, who will head a more aggressive distribution strategy for the firm. In addition to his former position at Fisher ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
The Australian share market was down in intra-day trading by noon, but gained off its lows of the session, buoyed by earnings results. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 35.6 points lower, or 0.8 per cent, at 4,424.0 points, while the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
The Australian stock market was higher at noon as resource companies underpin the local bourse. At 1215 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 26.6 points, or 0.59 per cent, at 4,568.7 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen 26.9 ...