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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
The Australian share market continued falling on Monday, with investors taking profits amid sentiment subdued by concerns over contagion from civil unrest in the Middle East. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 44.9 points at 4,891.8 ...

Poor advice fine to reach $200k

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
Financial advisers who break the law could face up to five years in jail and up to $200,000 in fines, based on proposed changes to industry laws. Currently a financial adviser that is found guilty of breaching their fiduciary duty could be charged a ...

Rise of 'climate sensitive' asset allocation: Mercer

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
Superannuation funds are being encouraged to embrace the investment opportunities brought on by climate change by investing in so called 'climate sensitive assets'. Climate change could account for 10 per cent of investment portfolio risk over the next ...

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!" At least this is way better than the "if you can't stop 'em, beat and shoot 'em" tactic employed by the governments of Bahrain and Libya on their protesting people. Wall Street activity overnight was just like a repeat ...

AMP rides subdued market with solid growth

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
AMP has posted a slight increase in financial planner numbers, solid performance from its fund managers and higher inflows in super, according to full-year results announced this morning. AMP has recorded an underlying profit for the 2010 financial ...

Media Super switches from Pillar to Mercer

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
Media Super has appointed Mercer to handle the fund's day-to-day administrative services, transferring from its current provider Pillar. The partnership with Mercer, starting from 1 March, will allow Media Super to improve its member services with the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving clear, positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with all three key Wall Street indices substantially higher, as were European and Asian markets. Gold was flat but higher, oil was higher, but silver and copper ...

Fund managers eye Asian equities: RBC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Fund managers are casting their nets wider into the Asia Pacific region to deliver 'alpha', shunning China and India to boost their portfolio returns, a survey found. The RBC Capital Markets survey reported high levels of confidence in Asian equity ...

Century Funds vies to take manager role from Opus

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Century Funds Management will make a bid as manager and responsible entity of the Opus Income & Capital Fund No. 21, to be decided by vote on February 28. The fund manager, which has $900 million in invested property and funds, said that the major unitholders ...

Malaysia pioneers Islamic Finance framework

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Malaysia is stepping up its push to become a world centre of Islamic finance with the release of a Shari'ah Governance Framework for Islamic Financial institutions that will apply to Islamic organisations from June this year. Development of the framework ...