Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1071 - 1080 of 2155 results for "Extra"

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Impressive! Nah Virginia, I refer not to the big bouncy bouncy Wall Street and European equity markets did last night - which almost instantaneously affirmed the rant I scribbled on this space yesterday that "the bad and the bad and the bad" that spooked ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... blokes and shielas that gained employment in February. Better, most were for full-time positions -- 31,500 of 'em - with an extra 6,100 part-time jobs making up the difference. This plays very well in accord with the "permanent income hypothesis" formulated ...

Rice Warner consultant criticises MySuper fee disclosure

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... approaches; this should, he said, result in lower fees over time but in many cases it hasn't. Further, he said that the extra costs generated by the individual managers in which funds were investing - which are not required to disclose their "indirect ...

AB managing director joins Dimensional

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
AB's managing director of institutional marketing and former country head Ross Kent has joined Dimensional Fund Advisors after more than a decade with the global asset manager. He joins the fund manager and research house as a regional director in Sydney ...

Fund manager insists active approach not broken

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
Fund manager Epoch Investment Partners has blamed the relatively poor performance of active managers in recent years on the market distorting impact of quantitative easing and says talented stock pickers will come good again soon. S&P Dow Jones recently ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... saw the local market firm by more than one per cent, City Index senior market analyst Kara Ordway said. "It's given us the extra momentum today," she said. US stocks firmed during overnight trade with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 1.49 per cent ...

APAC asset managers to invest heavily in data

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
State Street research suggests that asset managers in the Asia-Pacific region will significantly increase their investment in data management and analytics over the next three years. Based on a survey conducted by Longitude Research, which polled 400 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street fell on renewed anxiety over falling oil prices and the rising US dollar. At 0805 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down 11 points at 5,801. In local economic ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... there's... Disappointing fresh data releases out of China - retail sales, industrial production, fixed asset investment - provide extra fuel to these speculation. The PBOC must act before the on-going economic slowdown gathers momentum and breaks even ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat ahead of local jobs data and following a lacklustre performance on Wall Street. At 0808 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up five points at 5,791. In local economic news on ...