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Add £50b, will travel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... got closer. The benchmark NZSX-50 index, which gained strongly earlier in the week, shed 27.9 points, or 0.9 per cent, to close at 3056.2. Turnover was $NZ83.1 million ($A66.72 million).

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Watch the screens today! For at exactly 1130 hours (AEST), the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release a tally of how many of us were able to keep our jobs last month, how many were still looking for work and how many started submitting forms to ...

How planners can cope with redundancy

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... executive of FSP, said that retrenchment is a shock to the system, often traumatising the persons who lost their jobs and those close to them. This even takes a more compelling turn in financial planning where planners have a longer term relationship ...

ASIC approves Opes Prime settlement

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
ASIC has welcomed yesterday's court approval of the creditors Schemes of Arrangement that will oblige ANZ and Merrill Lynch to pay $226 million to Opes Prime clients. According to a media statement by ASIC, the schemes oblige ANZ and Merrill Lynch to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open modestly higher on Wednesday, after US markets rose to a nine-month high overnight, consolidating recent gains, and the prices of metals gained. At 0713 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September ...

Intra-fund advice relief opens super funds to lawsuits

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
Super funds run the risk of giving their fund members damaging financial advice if they don't address the "hidden traps" that come with the new intra-fund advice rules, warns a planning expert. Last month the federal government endorsed ASIC's decision ...

V still likely

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... "Maestro," former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was quoted overnight thinking out loud that the recession may be close to ending as he expects growth to reach plus (yes plus) 2.5 per cent in the third quarter as businesses rebuild their ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... first finish above 1000 since early November. The Nasdaq composite index rose 30.11, or 1.52 per cent, to 2008.61, its first close above 2,000 since October. LONDON - European stock markets rallied after upbeat data from the United States and the 16-nation ...

CalPERS buys Macquarie property

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
One of the US' largest pension funds, CalPERS, has forked out $550 million for a 60 per cent slice of a Macquarie CountryWide Trust's portfolio of shopping centers. The $224 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System closed the half a billion ...