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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
The Australian share market may open higher after US stocks gained overnight on a stronger-than-expected durable manufactured goods report. Declines in all industrial metals prices may weigh on resource stocks, however. At 0701 AEST on the Sydney Futures ...

Options Strategy branches out to Spark Green

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
Melbourne-based marketing firm Options Strategy has developed Spark Green, which provides effective digital and online marketing services for financial services institutions and super funds. Spark Green specialises in research, developing and executing ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
People arguing that Australia should relax its inflation targets are peculiar and misguided, argues Ken Henry, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... minutes of its May board meeting, Treasurer Wayne Swan speaks at an AICD lunch in Melbourne, and Federal Treasury Secretary Ken Henry gives a post-budget address to the Australian Business Economists. In data, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
The Australian share market was stronger at noon, led by gains in the big miners and energy stocks after oil reached new highs and metal prices rallied. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 44.2 points, or 0.75 per cent, to 5,975.2, while ...

Direct property reigns: study

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... level of volatility and lowest downside risk of any other investment, according to Atchison Consultants managing director, Ken Atchison. Meanwhile direct property has also provided a very low level of income volatility of asset classes, delivering 0.2 ...

Telstra Super eyes distressed debt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... said the super fund would use existing relationships with private equity managers to invest in distressed debt strategies. Ken Marshman, JANA Investment Advisers' head of investment outcomes, said the amount of interest in distressed debt has raised ...

CFS FirstChoice expands investments options

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
Colonial First State's (CFS) FirstChoice bumps up its investment menu with eight 'defensive' investment options including infrastructure, income and 130/30. "This year, more defensive options have been added in response to a more volatile market including ...

Sovereigns in a league of their own

... sovereign funds too to house their country's burgeoning assets, which will add hundreds of billions of dollars into the sector. Ken Atchison, principal of property specialist Atchison Consulting, said that the concerns are warranted where the sovereign ...

AMP easywrite eases insurance pain

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... if the customer has little to no disclosures. The service includes both personal and superannuation insurance. According to Ken Lockery, AMP director of personal wealth protection, easywrite reduced the application time because the customer was only ...