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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after negative leads from Wall Street in securities, metals and oil, although gold was higher. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 42 points lower ...

Confusion in the inflection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Cracks on the Wall? Have markets got ahead of themselves and investors are now looking for the greater fool? Taking Wall Street's cue, most major equity markets around the world finished last week's trading activity in the red. But then again, most ...

Plain English works best: Suncorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Suncorp Wealth Management has overhauled its communication strategy to help members better understand super, starting with a new communications guide for internal staff and a new look and feel to at least 100 types of letters it sends to members each ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was more than two and a half per cent lower at noon, with concerns about the stability of the US economy dragging the market down. At 1200 AEST, the S&P/ASX200 index slumped 110.4 points lower, or by 2.86 per cent, at 3745.7 ...

Amnesty pushes for fund review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Fund managers may want to review investments in PetroChina, Sinopec, Petronas and the Oil and National Gas Corporation (ONGC) after Amnesty International linked the companies to providing revenue to the Sudanese government. This warning comes after ...

Aviva targets SME market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Aviva Australia has developed a program that provides all the tools financial advisers will require to adequately service the investment and insurance demands of small to medium enterprises (SME). The program, SME Professionals, is broken up into two ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker after Wall Street fell as a gloomy retail sales report renewed concerns about the US economy. At 0710 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 86 points lower ...

Top 10 budget quotes

Financial Standard sifts through a record haul of budget commentary to highlight the industry's thinking on the government's budget announcement last night. "Commonsense has prevailed with the non-concessional contribution cap remaining unchanged." ...

TAAM strategy scores mandate boost

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Local and international institutional investors continue to back the $1.3 billion Treasury Asia Asset Management's investment strategies with mandate top-ups since June last year. TAAM chief investment officer Peter Sartori said institutional investors ...

APRA calls for IT risk submissions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Super funds, insurance firms and credit unions have just three weeks to deliver a written submission to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on effectively managing information technology (IT) risk. The regulatory body said IT risk ...