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Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
Happy New Year! The year 2009 is now a memory but a happy one at that. It was the year when bear calls were dismissed and risk-taking paid off - handsomely. Could we expect more of the same this year? Can equity markets, commodity markets and other ...

Fund managers pick what's hot in 2010

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
Fund managers are predicting strong returns from financial, industrial and media stocks while one manager is forecasting the local market to hit 5,600 by December next year. Paul Taylor, head of Australian equities at Fidelity International, said he ...

Tower pursues more insurance mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... investment related issues, with the GFC and unlisted assets. "A number of the trustees will be looking at us and it wouldn't surprise me if funds next year did revisit their insurance offerings," said Black. "Certainly we'd look to participate in as ...

Trustees snub Asian equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
Trustees of the country's largest super funds are yet to buy the Asia Growth story, with new research suggesting their asset allocation to the region will be around 2.8 per cent of their total allocation, a tiny increase from the current 2.5 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
... Japanese shares gained 2.43 per cent on market hopes that the central bank would take bold steps to revive the economy in a surprise meeting. The headline Nikkei index rose 226.65 points, or 2.4 per cent, to 9,572.2. Japan's central bank, under pressure ...

Desert Storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... announced the "standstill", Bloomberg reported that the news caught a London-based Middle East expert analyst at Barclays by surprise. Big bank...Middle East expert analyst...surprised? He was not alone. Bloomberg also quoted the chief emerging market ...

Faith in fee for service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... financial planners so they could practice how to approach the upfront or ongoing fee issue with clients. Much to McKenzie's surprise at the time, she said it was really well received by clients. "The clients were not fussed at all. In fact, they were ...

Equities could deliver zero returns: JANA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... equities" and pour more into absolute return strategies. He also said that Australian property investments could be the surprise star performer in the long-term, given demographic trends. But to truly understand the investment risk embedded in long-term ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open in positive territory after strong leads from Wall Street. At 0813 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 23 points higher at 4,544. In economic news on Thursday ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
... points, or 2.16 per cent, at 4,546.3 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street ended higher after hesitant trade on Monday after a surprise profit reported by Ford Motor Co and a strong factory sector survey boosted sentiment after last week's drubbing. The Dow ...