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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after falling sharply on Monday dragged down by the resourses sector and following mixed results on international bourses. At 0630 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 31 ...

VOFF slams MP response Trio Capital fraud

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
Victims of Financial Fraud (VOFF) has criticised member for Thornsby Stephen Jones over his response to the Trio Capital fraud. Jones said in a WIN News interview on 11 February that he intends to present a Private Members Bill to Federal Parliament ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
The Australian share market has opened fairly flat following a lacklustre finish on Wall Street. At 1030 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 5.6 points, or 0.11 per cent, at 4,941.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 4.5 ...

Platform asset-based fees under fire

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
The retail platform market is on the cusp of a revolution which will see standard asset-based pricing replaced with a fee-based structure, said Chris Wrightson, managing director of Centurian Market Makers. The business broking expert says that, in ...

Confident Instos return to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
The State Street Investor Confidence Index has risen for the second consecutive month. Up 5.4 points from December's revised reading of 81.4 to reach 86.8, State Street Global Markets, the investment research arm of the financial services giant, said ...

Caitriona Fay joins Perpetual's philanthropy business

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
Perpetual Private, the wealth advice arm of Perpetual Limited, has appointed Caitriona Fay as its new philanthropic services manager. Fay joins Perpetual from The Ian Potter Foundation, where she held the role of senior program manager. Fay is a member ...

Falling interest rates undermine seniors' confidence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... Asset Management's chief investment officer John Abernathy told Financial Standard that the rise in sentiment in 2013 could signal a significant turning point in the world economy. Meantime, Fidelity head of Australian equities Paul Taylor said he saw ...

2013 a turning point for world economy: Clime

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... improvements in each of the world's most anxiously watched markets have prompted a dramatic lift in investor sentiment, and could signal a major turning point for the global economy, according to Clime chief investment officer John Abernathy. While the ...

Planners praised for guiding investors into fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
The wall of cash built up in the wake of the GFC is showing signs of crumbling as fixed income see dramatic inflows off the back of changing fundamentals and the hard work of financial planners, according to PIMCO and Equity Trustees (EQT). EQT head ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call? Call anyone... except the credit rating agencies. That's who. You probably haven't noticed - or simply didn't care - but Fitch Ratings is about to do a Standard & Poor's. Fitch ...