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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street after a series of mediocre earnings report limited buying enthusiasm. At 0752 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was up 14 points at 4,974. ...

PIS appoints PwC as independent expert

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... redesign of our compliance processes, training, recruitment and governance along with a suite of new advice tools and a series of key appointments, which are all part of our ongoing strategy," PIS chief executive John De Zwart said. The largest independent ...

Australian economy "professionally managed": World Bank

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... currency if the economy is to manage its transition away from a focus on mining. Addressing delegates at The Bellweather Series, an annual finance forum in Sydney from The Economist's intelligence unit via link-up from the World Bank's Washington DC ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... before Tuesday. The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index lost 8.99 (0.25 per cent) to 3,598.50. Tuesday's losses came after a series of mixed earnings results and economic indicators. LONDON - Europe's stock markets retreated as traders weighed conflicting ...

CommInsure 'day one cover' available for CFS

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... the client or the adviser if they opt to pay with Super Payment Method." The 'day one cover' offering is the first of a series of product enhancements that will be launched in August.

SMSF 'Boost Camp' 2013 gets underway July 23

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
Sydney will host the first day of the 2013 SPAA State Technical 'Boost Camp' Series on Tuesday 23 July, at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour. The event, organised by the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) ...

LGS takes stand on Bangladesh, gains MySuper licence

ALEX DUNNIN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... recognised core labour standard of the International Labor Organization (ILO). The Bangladesh Statement is a response to a series of accidents in Bangladesh garment factories over the past six months which have collectively resulted in the deaths of ...

BetaShares partners FTSE in new ETF launch

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... benchmarks," BetaShares managing director Alex Vynokur said. The FTSE RAFI Australia 200 Index is part of the FTSE RAFI Index Series developed with Research Affiliates LLC, which selects and weights constituents according to four fundamental factors ...

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... important ones coming our way later this week. Before we laid our heads down to sleep we learned that the ANZ job advertisement series fell for the fourth straight month in June - down by 1.8% from down 2.5% in May. The series is down by 19% from a year ...

Mercer makes key changes to investment team

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
Mercer has made a series of strategic appointments to its investment team to tackle individual consumers in the retirement savings markets. Russell Clarke will assume the role of chief investment officer in the Pacific region after his predecessor Andrew ...