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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... broader All Ordinaries index slipped 78.4 points, or 1.86 per cent, to 4,125.8, the lowest since October 6. NEW YORK, Nov 23 AFP - US equity markets tanked Wednesday as a poor German government debt auction fuelled fears over Europe's fiscal crisis and ...

FPA award winners embrace FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... Speaking with Financial Standard after their win, Pippa Elliot, CFP, of WA planning firm Momentum Planning and Jim Fenwicke, AFP, Fenwicke Financial Services from NSW, both agreed that the proposed reforms under the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) ...

AMP planning associations adopt insight products

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
AMP Financial Planners Association, Hillross Advisers Association and General Insurance Advisors Association have adopted a new business insight product to provide strategic guidance during regulatory change. In response to predicted increases in operations ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... broader S&P 500 added 12.95 points (1.05 per cent) to 1,242.00. The S&P rebounded from mid-session's near-flat position after AFP reports that the eurozone emergency fund would be strongly reinforced, possibly with Chinese money, to a size adequate to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... divest loss-making North American operations and close 80 stores as annual profit has plunged 98 per cent. NEW YORK, Sept 15 AFP - Shares in Research In Motion fell sharply in after-hours trading Thursday after the BlackBerry maker said it shipped fewer ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... while the broader All Ordinaries index rose 7.6 points, or 0.18 per cent, to 4,277.4 points. ENERGY NEW YORK, Sept 9, 2011 (AFP) - Oil prices tumbled Friday, along with stock markets, as concerns intensified about the health of the European and US economies ...

Unshaken and unstirred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... doing the rounds of the financial markets. Japan was again shaken by a strong aftershock but financial markets hardly stirred. AFP reports that, "A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake late hit the same area of Japan ravaged by disaster a month ago, seismologists ...

We shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... that the world is an ugly place to put your money. The nuclear crisis is Japan remains unresolved. Here's the latest from AFP, "Japan said it was on "maximum alert" over a crippled nuclear plant where radioactive water has halted repair work and plutonium ...

Chile not so hot on fixed income

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... cash into fixed income over equities and aggressively hedged their investments to potential currency fluctuations. Chile's AFP system was introduced in 1981 to help people set aside more money for their retirement. Since then, more than 11.6 million ...

FPA to offer Life Risk course

... chief executive Jo-Anne Bloch said the FPA has developed the new education program to enable Associate Financial Planners (AFP) practitioner members to gain a professional identification in their area of speciality. The new program combines modules on ...