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WRF taps demand for alternatives

WRF Securities has signaled its plans to be a major player in global property and alternative assets after it appointed industry stalwart Maurice Kluge to the top job. Maurice Kluge, formerly head of property funds management at Allco, was appointed ...

Not drowning just waving

It is confession season for corporates and while the Institutional Broker's Estimate System shows a majority of analysts downgrading profits, the domestic market seems to be waving rather than drowning. A month or so out from the official company results ...

Economic round up: Inflation climbing, can rates hold?

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
So far, Australia's economy has displayed a miraculous sponge-like ability to absorb demand pressures but for how long? According to Grange Securities chief economist, Steven Roberts, the economy is now looking "very stretched" and the RBA might drag ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
The Australian stock market is expected to build on yesterday's gains, with a rise in international markets, a flat performance on Wall St and stronger commodity prices nudging the market into positive territory. At 0646 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
... wrapping up their worst week since a global sell-off in February amid fears that trouble at two Bear Stearns hedge funds may signal worse problems ahead for credit markets. Investors were rattled, also, by news that Democrats in the US Congress introduced ...

Bridgeport extends reach with HLB Mann Judd purchase

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2007
Bridgeport Financial Services has purchased HLB Mann Judd Financial Services in a move that greatly expands the Sydney company's reach across Australia and signals an even larger expansion strategy is in the works. The purchase means Bridgeport now ...

Biotech fund breaks into $4bn hearing loss sector

Listed fund BioTech Capital is making a play for the $4 billion hearing loss industry by injecting $2 million into hearing technology company Sensear. Sensear is a Western Australian-based company that was spun off the Western Australian Telecommunications ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2007
A sharp rebound on Wall Street is expected to help the Australian market overcome patchy commodity prices and open higher. At 0756 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index was up 64 points to 6251. In economic news today, RBA ...

Economic round-up: dust off the bear suit

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2007
... Stanley is advising clients to cut their exposure to the sharemarket after its key warning indicators flagged a clear sell signal for the first time since the dotcom debarcle. Morgan Stanley's chief European equities strategist, Teun Draaisma, claims ...

Senate C'tee rebuffs calls to lower foreign withholding tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
Just as the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has released a study arguing our local funds management industry could be a major export earner, the Senate Economics Committee has rejected industry lobbying that foreign investor withholding ...