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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on the US and European bourses as concern re-emerges over the eurozone's debt problems and confidence wanes for the Federal Reserve's QE3 move. At 0815 AEST on Thursday, the December share ...

Compliance stifling innovation: BTFG

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
Industry preoccupation with FOFA and the amount of funds flowing into compliance has stifled innovation in the platforms space, BT's head of platform products said, while predicting an evolution in the way technology is used. Kelly Power said the three ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
Australian stocks have opened lower after falls on Wall Street and losses for the mining giants. At 1015 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 20.6 points, or 0.47 per cent, at 4,352.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
What's wrong with this market? With so much liquidity being pumped into the system by three of the world's major central banks - the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan - markets appear unconvinced. Wall Street was down ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street after a Federal Reserve official said QE3 would likely do little to spur the US economy. At 0749 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was down ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly lower after overnight falls on US and European bourses as confidence from the Federal Reserve's stimulus measures fade and concern over the euro zone's debt returns. At 0805 AEST on Tuesday, the December ...

Indexing reaches all time high

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
Indexed funds under management have enjoyed enormous popularity since the GFC, with assets outgrowing non-indexed FUM by a factor of seven to one. June 2012 saw the figure for indexed FUM climb to $238 billion - the highest ever level in Australia ...

No BO news till elections please?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
You just gotta love the financial markets -- they don't run out of things to speculate about. With QE speculation over, the guessing game has shifted to whether or not QEs will work to bring back animal spirits and lead to a longer lasting and durable ...

Market Wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite a lack of direction from Wall Street at the end of the week with little concrete news for investors to grab on to. At 0800 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was up ...

Waiting to digest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
With three of the world's biggest central banks - The Fed, the ECB and the BOJ - flooding the world with money, financial markets are still digesting what this all means. The "will they, won't they" do a QE question had been answered. They did. Now ...