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It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... dollar. Total employment up 257,000 in January - more than expectations for a 230,000 gain and the 11th consecutive month of plus 200,000 increases - following upwardly revised additions to 329,000 in December and 423,000 in November - the largest gain ...

Future Fund smashes its performance target in 2014

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... return." As a result of the strong returns the Future Fund in 2014 delivered more than twice its target return, which is CPI plus 4.5%. Explaining the Future Fund's impressive performance outcome is that while regular super funds are about 20% invested ...

LaSalle appoints head of funds from Charter Hall

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... Australia. Chris Forbes will be based in Sydney and will be responsible for driving fund performance of the LaSalle Australia Core Plus Fund (LACPF) and the LaSalle Australia Club Investments Trust (LACIT). Forbes joins LaSalle from Charter Hall, where ...

Perpetual names new head of equities

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... experience including 12 at Perpetual. He is currently the portfolio manager of the Concentrated Equity strategy, the SHARE-PLUS Long-Short strategy and the Pure Equity Alpha strategy and a key leader in the equities business. Skamvougeras first joined ...

AMCIL suffers short-term performance dip

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... down 16.2% from $4.3 million in the same period the year before. A final dividend of 2.5 cents per share (fully franked) plus a special dividend of 4 cents per share (also fully franked) were paid in August 2014. The $210 million investment company comprises ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... Marketfield Asset Management CEO Michael Shaoul. "Either there is nothing to worry about and crude is going quickly back to $70 plus, or we have entered an earnings down cycle for an appreciable portion of the market." (Bloomberg) Dear oh dear oh dear ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... analyst Stephen Daghlian said. Energy giant Santos slumped to its slowest level in ten years following the slide in oil prices, plus a credit rating downgrade from Standard and Poor's. Santos shares were down 72 cents, or more than eight per cent, at ...

New FoFA likely to increase advice costs

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... principal John Birt said. Radar Results reported that 348 comments were lodged by advisers as part of the survey. "Unlike the 800-plus comments we received in the Radar Results April 2010 survey, there was minimal profanity," the firm noted. "Obviously ...

Don't underestimate LNG boom: BNP Paribas

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... have increased their allocation to Aussie dollars over the years on the basis that it's anything but US dollars or euros. Plus it's a triple A story with some yield, with linkages to the Asian growth story. Those guys are strategic long-term investors ...

Australia's confidence recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... stock market and that general anxious feeling. The other positive is the positive 0.8 percentage point from net exports - plus 0.6 pp from exports and plus 0.2 pp for imports. This is an excellent feat for Australia's exporters considering that July ...