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Mortgage Choice booms, invests in planners

AAP AND ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
A strong housing market has helped home lender Mortgage Choice deliver its best financial results ever with a record number of loan settlements. The lender's net profit rose 5.8% to $19.8 million in the year to June 30, up from $18.7 million in the ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... to $15.85 after announcing a fresh bid to enter the Las Vegas casino market through the purchase of a site on the famous Strip. The big four banks and the major miners were all down, while consumer staples and the property stocks bucked the trend to ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... alcohol and tobacco - and the song remains the same. Core consumer price inflation slowed to 0.7% in May from 1.0% in April. Strip out only energy prices and still inflation's down to an annual rate of 0.6% last month from 0.9% in April. If this isn't ...

Mmm bargains, hmm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
Wall Street bounces as bargain hunters pounce. I could stop right here, thank you very much but, alas, I have a number of words quota to fill so here we go. Yes Virginia, Wall Street clawed back some of the previous day's losses - the S&P 500 up 0.8% ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street with traders nervous amid relentless partisan squabbling over a US budget bill to avert a partial US government shutdown. At 0759 AEST on Monday, the September share price ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street gained following some solid economic data. At 0812 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,314. Wall Street's gains came on the heels of ...

SSgA launches hedged international equities ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has launched an international equities exchange traded fund (ETF) for Australian investors. The SPDR S&P World ex-Australia (Hedged) Fund will be hedged back into Australian dollars and begins trading on 9 July. Since ...

Labor completes super agenda with passage of four bills

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
The federal government's superannuation reform agenda is complete following the passage of four bills through the Senate last night. Included in the new laws (listed below) was an increase in concessional contribution caps to $35,000 for people over ...

SEC charges US adviser with pension fund theft

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... System of the City of Detroit without obtaining permission. They also allege he spent the proceeds buying two shopping mall strip malls in California. Charges have been laid as well against four other senior officials at the firm alleging they helped ...

Corporate Asian bonds on fire: HSBC

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
Due to flush liquidity, the rise of a hungry institutional investor base locally, and regulators keen to loosen up the region's reliance on bank funding, Asia's bond markets - currently running red hot - are to expected maintain rapid growth in years ...