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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open lower on Tuesday, following falls on Wall Street in both commodities and equities. On the ASX 24 at 0735 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 16 points lower at 4,653. In economics news on Tuesday ...

Calls for more investors in Great Southern class action

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Thousands of investors are anticipated to come forward in the class action against failed agribusiness, Great Southern Managed Investment Schemes. Already some 2,000 investors are part of the case, which returns to court on May 27 seeking further documents ...

Property managers stifled by lenders

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Property fund managers remain concerned by the lack of access to financing from major lenders, with no notable improvement in the last year, according to the Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA). An ADPIA survey of fund managers ...

Leveraged ETF risk laid bare

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Morningstar's co-head of fund research Tim Murphy caused a stir at the research firm's investment conference when he showed the risks of US-style synthetic ETFs at a panel session in Sydney on Friday. Tom Keenan of iShares Australia and Graham Smith ...

Alpha puts its money where its mouth is

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Alpha Structured Investments (Alpha) is tackling the big issues - how advisers can address client investment concerns and find the products that will re-ignite their desire to invest. Alpha is holding a half-day seminar, '2011 Tax Effective Investing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
The Australian market is likely to decline on Monday after US equities fell about one per cent and the price of gold and some base metals declined. At 0734 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was down 35 points at 4,678 points. ...

Super problems to short-change retirees

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
Deep problems in the superannuation system meant Australians may not have enough money to provide for their retirement despite half-million dollar balances, an industry expert said today. In his keynote speech at the Morningstar Investment Conference ...

$14 billion looking for a home

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
The biggest wave of freed-up money to hit the market in years will be looking for a home next month with $14 billion worth of bonds set to mature, a credit market expert has said. Vivek Prabhu, portfolio manager and credit analyst for Perpetual, says ...

IMCA: International expert to speak on the development of debt markets in emerging global economies.

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
The investment management consultants association (IMCA) has secured renowned global macro strategist, Dr Tom Higgins, as guest speaker at their upcoming seminar, to be held in Sydney on Wednesday, 18 May and Melbourne on Thursday, 19 May. Dr Higgins ...

Equity and commodity alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
"I will follow you Follow you wherever you may go..." -Ricky Nelson Why oh why does Wall Street continue to insist that rising commodity prices - particularly that of crude oil - is good for its health? Perhaps it's because today's Friday the 13th. ...