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Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... oil price slide, while Woodside was down 51 cents at $33.65 and Oil Search had dropped four cents to $7.97. Commonwealth Bank had shed 82 cents to $91.04, National Bank had fallen 14 cents to $36.92, ANZ had dropped three cents to $35.06 and Westpac ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... Australian Bureau of Statistics releases January Labour force data and December overseas arrivals and departures figures. Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor (Financial Markets) Guy Debelle is slated to speak at the FX Week Australia Conference ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... sent their stocks dipping, while falling oil prices dented the energy sector. Shares in market heavyweight, the Commonwealth Bank also fell despite it announcing a recorded half-year profit, but the CBA shares descended from recent record highs. The ...

Ex-ANZ adviser sent to jail over $6m fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... Between September 1992 and June 1996 she was a securities representative with Financial Wisdom (now owned by Commonwealth Bank) and in February 2004 she became an authorised representative of ANZ-owned Millenium3. In December 2013, Scott pleaded guilty ...

CBA wealth management FUA up 11%

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
Commonwealth Bank's wealth management division contributed strongly to the bank's solid half-year result, increasing funds under administration by 11% and delivering outperformance from 85% of funds over three years. The bank reported a statutory net ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... fell $1, or 1.14 per cent, to $86.60, despite more than tripling its first half profit. Among the major banks, Commonwealth Bank was 63 cents lower at $92.30, ANZ was down 12 cents at $34.86, National Australia Bank had dropped 44 cents to $36.76, and ...

Decline in practice valuations bottoms out

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
Financial planning business valuations have levelled off following a 20% decline over the last five years, according to a report from business broking services provider Centurion Market Makers. The report also showed that transaction activity increased ...

NAB kick starts self-employed advice channel

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB) is offering its advisers the opportunity to become self-employed through a new channel. Seven financial planners have recently signed up to the NAB Self Employed model and the bank aims to grow the channel to 15 advisers ...

ATO recovers $30 million from HSBC accounts

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... avoiding domestic tax obligations from 2005 to 2007, the ATO revealed it has been investigating 261 Australian-held HSBC Swiss bank accounts since 2010. The ICIJ data identified 856 Swiss bank accounts with a total combined holdings of $1.2 billion held ...

Tsipras has a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
"Greece has now become like herpes to the Eurozone, once you catch it you can't get rid of it." This is what I typed on this space way back in June 2011 when the Europeans were in the midst of a sovereign debt crisis with Greece at the epicentre of ...