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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
The Australian share market has opened lower after Wall Street haemorrhaged more than half of one per cent of its value overnight. At 1015 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 8.6 points to 5955.6, while the all ordinaries fell 7.7 points to ...

Time to look at Gen Xers

Many Gen Xers may be dirt poor compared to baby boomers but super funds who ignore this market segment do so at their own peril, according to Scott Pape, a finance expert and a Gen Xer. Pape, the 28 year old author of best selling book The Barefoot ...

ASIC acts to shut down scheme owing nearly $8m

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has commenced proceedings against a managed investment scheme which owes investors roughly $7.87 million. ASIC has taken action in the Adelaide Supreme Court to have a managed investment scheme ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
The victory of the Iemma government in NSW over the weekend is said to be a boost to the ethanol and clean coal industries, wireless broadband providers, the transport industry and sections of the engineering and construction industries. The $310 climate ...

BlackRock and IMCA award scholarship

The Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) is still accepting applications for this year's Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) scholarship with the closing date less than two months away. Sponsored by BlackRock, the $5,000 scholarship ...

SEC considers limits to private hedge funds investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
The Investment Company Institute in US has come out strongly in support of the Security and Exchange Commission's (SEC) recommendations that individuals investing in hedge funds must have at least A$3.2 million in private investments. "This requirement ...

HFA absolute return fund approved by S&P

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
HFA's Octane Global Fund has been rated 'investment grade' by Standard & Poor's. S&P fund analyst, Simon Scott, said the the gearing and long-short strategy of the HFA Octane Global Fund meant only investors with a sound understanding of this type of ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
Australian stocks were lower at noon dragged down by banking stocks which offset gains in a firmer mining sector and a positive lead from Wall St. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX index fell 28 points to 5,825 while the all ordinaries slipped 24.4 ...

ALP Govt will boost personal contributions: Swan

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
It's taken two decades, but it seems superannuation is looming as an election issue, albeit a lower order one, as the Labor Party and the Government slug it out over which Party has the best future plan for the industry and for investors. Shadow Treasurer ...

Russell best ideas fund recommended by Zenith

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
Zenith has rated the Russell Select Holdings Fund, a fund of best ideas, recommended on the back of its "sound and logical rationale". The Russell fund compiles a concentrated portfolio of just 20 stocks. The Select Holdings Strategy was launched in ...