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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
The Australian share market was more than half a per cent higher at noon following a firm lead from Wall Street and gains among the major miners. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 33.6 points, or 0.69 per cent, at 4,908.4 points, while ...

Former UBS GAM exec joins Equipsuper

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
Equipsuper has appointed former UBS Global Asset Management (Australia) deputy head of Australia and head of risk, Danielle Press, as chief executive. Press worked at UBS across a number of roles in Chicago, Geneva and Singapore. Prior to working at ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
Down day, up week. This was Wall Street's performance lat Friday and over the pass five trading days. And since the Australian equity market "almost" always marches to the beat of Wall Street's drum, market observers/forecasters guessing that it would ...

Cbus Connect merger heralds investment changes

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
Cbus is in merger talks with electricity fund CONNECT - a move that could see changes in overlapping mandates and a face off between each fund's asset consultant, Frontier Investments and JANA. Cbus, the industry fund for the construction, building ...

BT Super for Life hits the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
BT Financial Group won 5,000 new BT Super for Life customers in just six weeks through Westpac-owned channels Bank SA and St.George Bank. Melanie Evans, head of superannuation at BT Financial Group, said the successful campaign are due to the bank's ...

Risk commission debate heats up

RUTH LIEW AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
The FPA's stance that commissions on risk products should remain has revived the debate on insurance fees and prompted two other industry bodies to have their say. The Financial Planning Association yesterday called for commission payments for risk ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
America is zeroing in on China's weapon of mass destruction - the "overvalued renminbi". Yes Virginia, the US is drawing up battle plans as I write. According to Bloomberg, "Five senators including Charles Schumer of New York and Lindsey Graham of South ...

Commission on risk products should continue: FPA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has called for commission payments for risk products to continue, citing fee-for-advice payments on risk products could make life insurance too expensive for clients. According to a press statement, the FPA Board ...

Open letter to trusted trustees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Trustees should use their collective muscle to punish investment managers and listed company directors who are robbing investors blind through capital raisings and deals that ultimately destroy shareholder value, said a governance expert. Dean Paatsch ...

Analyse this

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
The Janus Global Research 130/30 fund zoomed past its benchmark by more than 12 per cent last year - gaining 47.7 per cent in the year to December - thanks to its secret weapon: career analysts. Jim Goff, director of research at Janus, a $97 billion ...