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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street slumped for the third straight session with investors fearing high-flying technology stocks are overvalued and cautiously anticipating earnings season. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the June ...

Perpetual jettisons Guardian Trust

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
Perpetual has sold The New Zealand Guardian Trust Company to Complectus for NZ$68.5 million ($63.3 million). The move follows Perpetual's December 2013 acquisition of The Trust Company which owned Guardian Trust. Perpetual said The New Zealand business ...

Viable SMSF size underestimated

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The size at which a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) becomes a viable alternative to regular funds may be considerably higher than the industry currently estimates due to the impact of scale on performance. The industry typically advises that ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street tumbled more than 2.5 per cent despite solid jobs data. At 0645 AEDT on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was down 41 points at 5,381. The US Department of Labor reported ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
In big picture terms, not much happened last week. Yes Virginia, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept policy unchanged - as expected. The European Central Bank (ECB) guided forward but also stayed on the sidelines. US non-farm payrolls added another ...

ICAC grills Sinodinos on $20 million inducement

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Former assistant treasurer Arthur Sinodinos has said it "never occurred" to him to disclose to New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell that he stood to earn a $10 to $20 million commission if Australian Water Holdings (AWH) won its bid to participate ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... release on Friday night, or the announcement of additional economic stimulus measures from China, OptionsXpress market analyst Ben Le Brun said. "Investors are extremely cautious about pushing this market higher, especially up to those fresh five-and-a-half-year ...

Legg Mason hires sales director from JPM

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... Zealand markets." Taylor joins following the appointment of sales directors Nathan Masalski from AllianceBerstein in 2012 and Ben van Den Tol from ING Commercial Bank in 2013. The growth in the Australian sales team is part of a continued strategy to ...

William Blair opens three funds to Australian investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
US fund manager William Blair has launched its first unit trusts to Australian institutional and wholesale investors. The Global Leaders Equity Fund, Emerging Markets Leaders Equity Fund and Dynamic Diversified Allocation Fund were selected from William ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Only 2 economists out of the 57 in Bloomberg's survey and just 2 - perhaps the same 2 - out of 72 economist polled by Reuters got it wrong. Think it's safe to say that these two economists (or four, in case they aren't the same two) expected the European ...