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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... justifying its 25 basis point interest rate rise at its meeting on March 2, he added. "We're seeing the same sort of broader macro-positive comments. "The statement was fairly well to be expected. There was nothing out of the ordinary and the market ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
The Australian stock market has received a mixed set of leads from offshore trading, with Wall Street and oil prices flat in afternoon trade but metals prices weaker. At 0800 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract ...

Up, down, flat trading day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
Wall Street remains on system standby. You can reason one way or the other until you're blue in the face but the fact remains that there wasn't anything new in last night's data releases. It's the same old, same old mix of negatives and positives. Besides ...

US fund managers say long term, trade short term

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
A US-based study has found many US fund managers are churning their portfolio more often than they said they would - giving new evidence that short-termism is rife and long-termism is just lip service for many. The study found nearly two thirds of institutionally ...

FT launches second Asian real estate fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors has launched its Asian Real Estate fund 2 after the previous fund by the same name closed with over $420 million from European and Australian investors. The fund has the same structure as its predecessor - a private ...

Contribs rate during GFC still 23 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Super contributions contracted only 5 per cent during the 2008-09 global financial crisis to $112 billion, leaving total contributions still at a high 23 per cent of total national wages or two-and-a-half times the SG rate, according to latest figures ...

Ascalon buys more stake in H3

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... is making on the investment sector has been acknowledged by its invitation to attend the prestigious Goldman Sachs Global Macro and CTA Hedge Forum now underway in New York, where Mathew Kaleel is the only boutique fund manager in the Asia Pacific region ...

AQR receives strong ratings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... Australian investors with risk-controlled and cost-effective exposure to nine core hedge fund strategies (including global macro, event driven, equity long-short, managed futures, etc). The objective of the fund is to provide investors with the core ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
Australian shares may open little changed after mixed leads from US markets. Commodity stocks may decline after the price of raw materials slipped overnight as the US dollar rose. At 0806 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price ...

EQT and Schroder get ratings upgrade

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
... international allocation is evolving and moving past aggregate sectors, high yield and emerging markets to include derivative-based macro and specialised credit strategies," said David Erdonmez, fund analyst at Standard & Poor's. "Given the widened opportunity ...