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Goodbye or good buy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
Time to say good buy or goodbye? Is this the best of times or is this the worst of times? The dreaded DD (double-dip) is back on the headlines. So is the R (recession). And with them comes Armageddon. I think Armageddon is most fitting in this case ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
The Australian stock market is expected to follow Wall Street into another day of steep declines, after New York indices all plunged by around six per cent overnight. At 0721 AEST on the ASX 24, the September share price index futures contract was 153 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
The Australian share market had clawed back some losses at noon after Standard and Poor's downgraded the United States credit rating for the first time in history over the weekend. After plunging four per cent on Friday, the local bourse was down more ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
The Australian share market dropped sharply on the open as nervous investors reacted to Standard & Poor's historic weekend downgrade of US sovereign credit. At time of writing the All Ordinaries Index had fallen 66.1 points or 1.59% to 4103.6 while ...

Capital protected products shine in gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Nervous market sentiment is prompting demand for defensive investments and sparking innovation with the Commonwealth Bank pondering new capital protected product structures. Moghseen Jadwat, head of business development for structured investments at ...

AUI expands with property fund acquisitions

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Australian Unity Investments has picked up three unlisted property funds, with over $430 million in FUM, as part of its property growth strategy to build its retail funds business. Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has entered into an agreement with ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Australian stocks are tipped to be pushed into the red again today after America's credit rating was downgraded for the first time in its history over the weekend. Hopes for a bounce on the Australian share market after a horror Friday appear to have ...

FSC insurance churn action divides planners

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Financial advisers fear that new measures from the Financial Services Council aimed at reducing churn in the insurance market will lead to some penalties for acting in the best interest of a client. Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive officer ...

LICs benefit from FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
The impending loss of trailing commissions for managed funds has made listed investment companies more attractive by leveling the playing field, an industry insider said yesterday. John Robinson, chairman of Global Mining Investments (GMI), a listed ...

Ready to turn on the tap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
It could have easily been another down day on Wall Street overnight - but it wasn't. The Street's three major equity indices finished above the zero line while we slept, despite more stats giving credence to 'the US is heading for another recession' ...