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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open sharply lower following strong falls on US and European markets. At 0812 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was down 53 points at 5,517. International markets plummeted on a range ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." These were the words that came out of the European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi's lips barely two months ago, straight after the ECB announced a 10 bps reduction ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... The Australian share market is slightly lower, as investors digest the impact of Argentina's debt default and US and European Union sanctions against Russia. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the market was relatively quiet as it tried to balance ...

Default pensions 'very logical' solution: Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
A MySuper-style default retirement product could be "a very logical" way to encourage retirees to take income streams rather than lump sums, according to Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden. Brogden's comments came in response ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... the CAC 40 tumbled 1.22 per cent to 4,312.3 points. Energy companies led the charge lower, after the United States and European Union agreed to expand restrictions against Moscow, targeting the Russian energy, defence and finance sectors. Russian markets ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Reports that the US of A and the European Union have expanded the sanctions they've imposed on Russia reminded me of that ancient Spanish torture weapon - the garrotte. Wikipedia describes the garrotte as "a practice of strangulation by which the condemned ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat following losses on Wall Street after the United States and the European Union broadened sanctions on Russia, overshadowing US economic data and earnings reports. At 0808 AEST on Wednesday, the September ...

Legg Mason acquires UK global equity manager

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... capabilities in active global equity strategies, including global equity. Martin Currie's global emerging markets, Asian equity, European equity, Japanese equity and Chinese equity strategies give the US investment giant specific regional capability ...

Select brings Neuberger Berman hedge fund strategy to Australia

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... individual stock level. It aims to provide a return in all market conditions. The strategy has raised over $1.6 billion from European and US investors over the last two years. "The recent period of low volatility has reinforced a foreboding for many ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... benefits slid to an eight-year low last week, dropping 19,000 to 284,000, the US Labour Department reported. LONDON - European stock markets rose and the euro recovered from an eight-month low as figures pointed to an uptick in growth in Europe and China. ...