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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
The Australian stock market was down at midday following a negative lead from Wall Street. The banking sector was again suffering with analysts speculating that stocks were being short sold. At 1207 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 75.2 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open sharply lower on a negative lead from Asian and European markets and large falls in commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was down 158 points at ...

Austock High Yield gets three stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
Austock Asset Management has extended its reach into the financial planning industry after its High Yield Fund received a three star rating from research specialist Standard & Poor's. According to Austock Asset Management (Austock), the fund is invested ...

AXA locks and loads

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
AXA is using its global muscle to provide superannuation members with a fund that can lock in gains each year, just like a capital-protected managed fund, and potentially, on a weekly or monthly basis in the future. The Australian launch of North, a ...

Polaris sets PACE

Insurers and fund managers can shorten the time it takes to develop and market new investment products after a new Polaris software testing centre sets up shop in Sydney. The leading finance IT provider has set up a new specialist software testing lab ...

What happened to baby platforms?

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
The decline in popularity of baby or cut down wraps could be due to the mixed feelings among product managers about their relevance to today's investors. Alan Kenny, general manager of product and investment services at Colonial First State said FirstChoice ...

Rate reprieve scratch during Cup Carnival?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
Worse-than-expected CPI figures could crash the Melbourne Cup Carnival, while the Aussie dollar dances to the beat of the rate hike speculation. The trimmed mean consumer price index (CPI) figure rose to 0.9 per cent in the September quarter and consensus ...

Portfolios not adjusted for downturn

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
Despite recent turmoil in credit markets flowing into equities, investors have been slow to alter their portfolios to match, according to Merrill Lynch's Survey of Fund Managers for September. Conducted by Taylor Nelson Sofres, the survey of 188 fund ...

ING revamps corporate and SME super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
ING Australia has made sweeping changes to its corporate and small to medium size enterprises (SME) super products including extended income protection cover, capped fees and a user-friendly PDS. "The changes we have implemented are focussed on simplifying ...

Seven page PDS insurance breakthrough

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
Allianz has thrown down a huge challenge to the insurance industry with the launch of a direct access life insurance suite of products that not only lower costs by up to 30 per cent but come with a product disclosure statement that is only seven pages. ...