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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... LONDON - European stocks slid with news that President Barack Obama will nominate Janet Yellen to replace Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke failing to offset jitters over the US budget showdown. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index dropped 0.44 per cent ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... Radford said confirmation US President Barack Obama would nominate Janet Yellen to replace outgoing Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke may also help stem the losses on Wednesday. The losses were spread across the market in early trade. Global miner ...

Obama expected to pick Yellen as US Fed chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... controlled US Senate, Yellen would become the first woman to hold the post in the institution's 100-year history, replacing Ben Bernanke whose term ends in January. President Obama is due to make the announcement at White House ceremony attended by Bernanke ...

Guardian Advice benefits from planner "flight to security"

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
Guardian Advice has hit the 200 adviser milestone and is benefiting from financial planners' "flight to security," the group's executive manager Simon Harris said. In the past months Guardian Advice has attracted independent advisers from small dealer ...

Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
Shutdown: Day 8 and counting and... 9 days to go before the US debt hit the ceiling. Yes Virginia, those adult politicos in Washington are still at it...playing their game of chickens. Both sides are waiting for the other to blink. You know what happens ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on international markets as the US budget standoff enters its eighth day with no end in sight, stoking worries of a catastrophic default. At 0800 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Australian stocks are slightly lower as concern about the political deadlock in the US continues to weigh on investors. Stock markets across the world have been in decline for most of the past couple of weeks due to the standoff between Republicans ...

AustralianSuper awards Sevior $1.2bn mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Fund manager John Sevior's Airlie Funds Management has attracted close to $1.2 billion from AustralianSuper. The former Perpetual star fund manager founded Airlie last year and AustralianSuper awarded Sevior's start-up with its fifth largest mandate ...

LGS enhances ESG credentials with Green Bond purchase

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Local Government Super (LGS) has said it has become the first Australian superannuation fund to invest in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) $250 million Green Bond. Funds raised through the Green Bond - which was issued on ...

Australia's second SBB hits $10m target

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Australia's second social benefit bond (SBB), issued by the Benevolent Society in partnership with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac, has closed after raising its target $10 million. The Benevolent Society SBB, which will help fund the ...