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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
Australian shares have opened lower after a downgrade of nine of the European bloc countries' credit ratings sparked a fresh wave of risk aversion ahead of more Chinese data this week. Standard & Poor's (S&P) on Friday stripped France and Austria of ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
Change is the only constant. Many of you gentle readers would have noticed the change in my stance these past few weeks - not overnight as reader Paul accuse - over the state of the global economy and financial markets. Let me explain why am not in ...

Other play factors

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
What's the final deal going to be? Will they, won't they? Sorry Virginia, not talking about the grand theatrics that is the US debt ceiling negotiations this time. Today, I refer these questions to our very own Reserve Bank of the Advance Australia ...

Fundamental indexing isn't

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... using company metrics that overweight on smaller companies and this makes it a de facto active strategy. "If you really strip it down they're really taking a tilt towards small companies," he said. "They're active strategies. Anything that is not the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... the March quarter to $10.447 billion, driven by a big drop in exports. Economists say the widening of the trade gap will strip 2.4 percentage points from economic growth for the quarter, the biggest single-quarter hit to growth from trade in the 52-year ...

GDP down no reason to frown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
It's all over the news, the Statistician will soon confirm that the Australian economy stumbled in the first quarter of 2011. All eyes would be glued to monitors everywhere when the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report on the National Accounts ...

Signature scam adviser banned for life: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
A financial adviser who allegedly used a scanned copy of his 72-year-old client's signature to misappropriate $1.5 million in shares is facing a life ban from ASIC and court action. Todd Michael King, of Perth, WA, allegedly used a scanned signature ...

FTSE launches ESG investment product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... practices of over 2,300 public companies worldwide. The ratings service equips institutional investors with a scoring model to strip down a company's ESG practices by environmental management, climate change, human and labour rights, supply chain labour ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
The Australian dollar was almost a US cent lower at noon, after minutes from the central bank's April board meeting confirmed that it was in no hurry to raise rates. At 1200 (AEST) on Tuesday, the local unit was trading at 104.63 US cents, down from ...

GFC hangover hits Perpetual profit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
A goodwill write-down from a pre-GFC purchase helped drag down wealth manager Perpetual's first-half profits by 29 per cent year-on-year to $35 million for the six months to December. The $10.6 million goodwill write-down comes from their 2008 purchase ...