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Advisers caught for market manipulation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Two former client advisers have been found guilty of market manipulation following ASIC investigations. According to a statement by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Rocco Musumeci and Richard John Wade were yesterday handed custodial ...

Fin services escapes consumer law reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
While the government is expected to today announce major reforms to national consumer laws, the financial services sector will continue to be exempt from progressive consumer protections. Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer ...

Biggest Loser Part 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
The contest for 'The Biggest Loser' went into full swing as bad news continued to flow. Right on the heels of the Eurozone's 1.5 per cent economic contraction in the fourth quarter, Japan's weigh in showed that its economy lost more, down 3.3 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market was marginally lower at noon after falls in the resource sector. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 25 points, or 0.7 per cent, lower at 3,534.1, while the broader All Ordinaries shed 18.1 points, or 0.52 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market was marginally higher at noon, with the finance sector stronger but the big miners limiting gains on the local market. By 1208 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 16.5 points, or 0.47 per cent, at 3,530.8 while the ...

Allianz pays $500,000 to bushfire sufferers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Allianz Australia has paid out more than $500,000 to Victoria's bushfire victims and expects the total industry insured damage to reach $1 billion. By noon on Thursday Allianz had received 533 claims valued at more than $55 million, more than double ...

No meat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
'All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say Yo Goober! Where's the meat? I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.' Homer Simpson. Equity investors who came to US Treasury ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
The global financial crisis has widened the performance gap between the best and worst performing default workplace super funds to 36 per cent, treble their historic difference, according to SelectingSuper data. The latest SelectingSuper super fund ...

IRESS eyes Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
Homegrown tech company IRESS Market Technology is defying the market recession and is expanding its presence in Asia. IRESS is adding several Asian markets to its webIRESS online equity information and trading platform. During the first half of 2009 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open stronger due to gains on Wall Street and European markets, as well as signs a $US780 billion ($A1.19 trillion) stimulus package will be approved in the US. At 0759 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...