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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
Australian stocks were higher at noon after all major US indices surged more than eleven per cent overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 219 points, or 5.24 per cent, at 4399.7, while the broader All Ordinaries had gained 227.6 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... trading in Australia, the December SPI futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange, was up 306 points at 4,500. The three major US stock indices rose more than eleven per cent overnight after governments of major economies announced plans to guarantee ...

FPA joins IFSA in mental health initiative

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
Planners will take on the mantle of providing better insurance cover for people with depression or other mental illnesses after their representative body, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) joined life insurance industry players in signing this ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... then but going below that is the lowest we've seen for five or six years. "The damage is broad-based... across all of the major sectors with the majority of the selling pressure coming out of the financials and also out of the materials sector." At 1203 ...

Climate change rhetoric yet to match investor reality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... climate change, there are still tremendous gaps between rhetoric and reality of what investors are doing about it, reveals a major study just released by Finsia. "There is quite a knowledge gap opening between those interested in climate change, the ...

Patience is a virtue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... is - as a new day brings fresh news that financial Armageddon is nigh. Yesterday's concerted action by 6 of the world's major central banks - plus the Peoples Bank of China - on top of prior cuts by the RBA and the Hongkong Monetary Authority, were followed ...

When five become one: AUI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
The $6.2 billion Australian Unity Investments is looking to morph five of its retail property syndicates and trusts into a hybrid $400 million mega fund. The fund manager is currently seeking investor approval to convert its five offerings into a single ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
Central banks threw in the kitchen sink. In a coordinated move, six major world central banks each cut their benchmark target interest rate by 50 basis points in efforts to stem the global panic. The US Federal Reserve lowered the fed funds rate to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... fallout from the global credit crisis wiped $56 billion from the value of stocks. It was the biggest one-day fall for both major stock exchange indices since January 22 this year. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 230.6 points, or 4.99 per cent, lower ...

PIS creates NZ advice giant

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
Professional Investment Services New Zealand (PIS NZ) and Newpark Financial Services are expected to merge and create New Zealand's largest financial advisory group with more than 250 advisers and 130 accounting firms. Robbie Bennetts, PIS chief executive ...