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Mercer's self employed advice strategy falls short

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
Mercer Wealth Solutions' strategy to sign self-employed financial planning practices has netted only two practices in a year, well short of the expected 12 practices flagged last year. Mercer Wealth Solutions launched its self-employed financial planning ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open weaker after US stocks fell and oil prices dropped overnight. Higher gold, silver and copper prices could help lift the market, however. At 0717 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

WA planning firm wins Telstra award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
WA-based financial planning group Addwealth has won the Telstra Business Award for Social Responsibility in Western Australia. The firm will represent WA in the national awards next month. According to the firm, it was the only financial services company ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to continue the week's gains, following another positive day on Wall Street on corporate earnings reports. At 0730 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 31 points higher ...

Instreet BDM hires pay off

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
Instreet Investment's fund inflows have doubled to over $10 million a month since the firm hired a business development manager in Queensland and Melbourne. The firm hired Gabriel Carey and Susanne Bransgrove as senior business development managers ...

Perth stockbroker gets ban for life

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
It's not the same as Madoff's 150-year jail sentence but a WA-based stockbroker has been permanently banned from providing financial services after a $9 million fraud. ASIC has permanently banned Jonathan Kur of Dianella, Western Australia from providing ...

A lose-lose proposition

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
If you can't buy 'em, jail 'em! Is China going back to its old ways? Wall Street ended flat overnight. And so it should there was really not much news out for it to react to one or another. The G8 meeting in Italy produced nothing new. Their communique ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
The Australian share market has received mixed leads from overseas, with Wall Street ending mostly weaker, while precious metals and oil prices rose overnight. At 0713 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
The Australian share market has received strongly negative leads overnight, with Wall Street indices heavily down, along with commodities, including precious metals, oil and copper. At 0733 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

IMF Australia targets Great Southern

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
IMF Australia has agreed to fund legal proceedings on behalf of Great Southern Cattle projects against companies and various directors within the agribusiness fund manager. The planned litigation will be a group action in the Supreme Court of Western ...