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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... sparks, gaining 3.75 per cent to $1.51. Meanwhile, the big four banks were all around one per cent lower. National Australia Bank shed 26 cents to $24.52, Westpac lost 16 cents to $21.89, ANZ fell 22 cents to $22.82, and Commonwealth Bank dipped 54 cents ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
Uh-oh. Here's looking at you kid, and kid you're not looking good. A weaker-than-expected US non-farm payrolls report released during the Easter break punctuated a week of not so good news for the equity markets, re-igniting the uncertainty over America's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... construction index (PCI) for March is due for release, as is the ANZ job advertisements series for March and the National Australia Bank's monthly business survey for March. In equities news, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is expected ...

SWFs have liabilities to manage too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... understand their risk management requirements, claims a just released joint study by the EDHEC Risk Institute and Deutsche Bank. The misunderstanding is caused by the misplaced perception that SWFs do not have liabilities to match against and so investment ...

Robeco hits Aus shores

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
Netherlands-based asset management firm, Robeco, has expanded into the Australian institutional market, headed up by former Australian head of institutional business at Aberdeen Asset Management, Stephen Dennis. With a focus on Australia's growing domestic ...

RBC acquires 100pc RBC Dexia IS

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012

Goldman Sachs equities fund awarded AA rating

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
Goldman Sachs Asset Management Australian Equities Wholesale Fund has received the AA rating in van Eyk's Australian Equities Review 2012. This is the first time van Eyk has awarded the AA rating in Australian equities since 2009. The review considered ...

Finance and Treasury Association appoints new CEO

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
The Finance and Treasury Association has appointed David Michell as new CEO. Michell is the former technical director and deputy chief executive of the Association serving from 1999 to 2006. He has 25 years experience in banking, investments and in ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... Treasury sold less bonds than targeted and at higher yields at last night's auction -- and German calls for the European Central Bank (ECB) to prepare an exit strategy because of rising inflation there. But has the market suddenly become so fearful again? ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... slumped and the euro lost ground against the dollar, hit by yet more signs of recession in Europe as the European Central Bank kept interest rates at an historic low. At the close, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies fell 2.30 percent ...