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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
Local markets have received strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with heavy falls on Wall Street, oil falling below $US75, and metals, too generally lower. Only gold futures rose. At 0717 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the ...

More workshops to prep for fee-for-service

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
From only a fraction of financial planning groups offering advice through fee-for-service five years ago, the advice model has now gone mainstream - and there are workshops a-plenty for those who are still mulling over their options. Seven years ago ...

Former planner taps need for online education

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
A former Securitor financial planner has started a new online financial planning educational website service that - barely three months since going live with their new Financial Knowledge Centre - has already caught the interest of various dealer groups ...

Ipac boosts insurance-related investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
Ipac Asset Management plans to have as much as a 25 per cent allocation within its alternatives growth portfolio devoted to insurance-related investments, and backs the strategy with a $50 million seed investment into a newly-launched catastrophe insurance ...

Asian M&A deals to surge

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
The Asian asset management market has been forecast to pick up speed after a new report found that activity in the merger and acquisition market is growing. The latest issue of The Cerulli Edge: Asia-Pacific Edition assessed the various factors that ...

AMP Capital Investors expands fixed income team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
AMP Capital Investors has appointed senior portfolio manager Sonia Baillie, formerly from Nomura, to the fixed income team as incumbent Andrew Lally joins the Australian equities team. The firm has also expanded the fixed income team with two new roles ...

More planners bypass managed funds: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
Fund managers are put on notice in a recent investment study that found a growing number of planners are placing their clients' funds into direct shares, ETFs, REITs and SMAs, leaving only a fraction of inflows into traditional managed funds. The survey ...

Election campaign ignores seniors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
The election campaign has bypassed too many key issues important to older Australians, according interests groups that aim to represent the segment. Speaking outside parliament House in Canberra this morning, largely deserted as most politicians are ...

Avoid high yield traps: State Street

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
According to the report, investors should be cautious when looking to add stocks with misleadingly high dividend yields to their portfolios, as the higher yield is often a result of significant price declines rather than increases in dividends paid. ...

ETFs hit trillion dollar milestone

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
The global exchange traded fund (ETF) industry hit the US$1 trillion mark this month and product providers predict the launch of fixed income ETFs this year and next will drive the sector's mainstream appeal. At the end of July 2010, the global ETF ...