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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
The Australian market has received strongly positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with most major markets comfortably higher, including oil and precious and base metals. At 0700 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index ...

North gets very strong rating from S&P

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
AXA's North product has received a "very strong" rating from research house S&P Fund Services. According to a press statement, the rating reflects a product well designed for the needs of the target investor and a superior capital-protection structure ...

Farmland ripe for the picking

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
Institutional investors may want to broaden their investment scope to farmland after a report found investments in agricultural property prices have fallen from the pre-crisis highs and may benefit from rising commodity prices. The Cerulli Edge: Global ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
The Australian stock market likely to open stronger following a mostly positive lead from Wall Street overnight. At 0736 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 33 points higher at 4,947 points. In economics news ...

Astarra pain spreads to super funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
Gaming group Tabcorp will be moving the superannuation accounts of 250 NSW TAB staff affected by the collapse of Astarra to CareSuper. A Tabcorp spokesperson contacted by Financial Standard this morning said the company has written to the relevant workers ...

Trustees urged to review power of attorney

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
Self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees should look over the fine print of their enduring powers of attorney documents for their fund because state and territory law can affect when and how that power is moved. Enduring power of attorney refers to the ...

US financials a big play: Bennelong SGI

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
The global financial sector may be a shadow of its former self after the GFC but it is still a $9.1 trillion (US$8.5 trillion) market full of stocks ripe for the plucking, said fund manager Bennelong SGI Global Equities. Visiting Australia this month ...

MySuper proposal ignites storm

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
Australia's superannuation market will be closed to new entrants under proposals by the Super System Review (SSR) that could effectively shut down competition, entrench incumbents and force small funds to merge. The proposals are in the review's MySuper ...

Time to grow: Securitor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR IS A MEDIA GUEST OF THIS YEAR'S SECURITOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE.  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Securitor, one of the largest financial planning groups in the country, maps out a growth strategy that will prepare its planners ahead of industry consolidation, tougher regulation and the nation's seismic $400 billion wealth transfer over the next ...

ASIC targets alleged Ponzi scheme

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
ASIC has obtained court orders freezing $14.6 million in assets of four men from Victoria and Western Australia, due to concerns about the possible operation of a Ponzi-style scheme. The orders are against Peter van de Steeg, Jonathan Ezzy, Peter Berlowitz ...