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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
... 15.5 cents higher at $37.715, Rio Tinto had improved 49 cents to $65.31 and Fortescue Metals firmed five cents to $5.80. But gold miner Newcrest lost three cents to $8.67 as gold fell to a four month low.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... Australian shares are weaker as Wall Street volatility hits all local sectors. The miners are suffering the heaviest falls as gold and oil prices fell, Australian Stock Report senior equity analyst Benny Sada says. "The miners have taken a bigger hit ...

Investors complacent of inflation risk

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... portfolios against unpriced inflation risk. Wilkes explained that inflation-hedging favourites such as property, equities, gold and other commodities are highly correlated with growth and for this reason can be ineffective inflation hedges. Instead ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... probably overdone given the fact that there weren't any real negatives out there," he said. All sectors were higher at noon with gold and banks the standouts. Easily the best performer among the top 100 stocks was building products maker James Hardie ...

GSAM launches flexible global bond fund in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has launched the Goldman Sachs Global Strategic Bond Fund for Australian investors. The Australian dollar-based strategy is designed to provide income and total return through exposure to a broadly diversified portfolio ...

Government scraps Super Charter

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
The government has announced it will scrap Labor's plan to set up a Council of Superannuation Guardians and a Charter of Superannuation Adequacy and Sustainability, arguing it would create unnecessary bureaucracy. The purpose of the Charter was to "clearly ...

ASIC didn't take my claims seriously: whistleblower

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
... (ASIC) of not taking his claims seriously. In a submission to the Senate inquiry into the performance of the regulator, Scott Gold explained that he decided to become a whistleblower when he realised that his partner Robert Lloyd Wilson, better known ...

GSAM Asia chairman departs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
Goldman Sachs Asset Management chairman in Asia will depart the company after 15 years and will remain in the company as an advisory director. Oliver Bolitho will retire at the end of this year after having served as Goldman Sachs head of UK and Irish ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... were well supported in overnight markets," he said. "In the London Metal Exchange market, the base metals went lower and gold and West Texas Intermediate, the oil side of things, they were basically unchanged." BHP Billiton added 46 cents, or 1.23 per ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... with BHP Billiton down 25 cents to $37.41, Rio Tinto off 60 cents to $63.39 and Fortescue losing 4.5 cents to $5.165. The gold sector's volatile year continues with the sector 3.7 per cent down in early trade and Newcrest Mining 29 cents, or 2.8 per ...