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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... Australian share market gained more than three per cent yesterday, buoyed by a strong US lead and hopes of cuts to domestic interest rates. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed 148.7 points, or 3.08 per cent higher at 4969.1, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

AMG set to ramp Aust business

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... recently snapped up US-based Gannett Welsh & Kotler, a bond and equity investments manager, and acquired a majority equity interest in global equity manager Harding Loevner. Locally, AMG's affiliates include AQR, First Quadrant, Third Avenue and Tweedy ...

Top platforms give Basis investors helping hand

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
Seven of the industry's leading wealth management providers have teamed up to establish a good will fund for embattled Basis Capital investors. The IFSA Basis Capital Working Group, made up of Asgard, BT Financial Group, Synergy Capital Management ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... Ltd reported robust fourth-quarter and full-year results. In the US, the Dow spiked after the US Federal Reserve left interest rates on hold, assuaging some of the market's fears about the economy. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up ...

Apostle fund raises $30m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... the North America exposure. Karyn West, Apostle Asset Management managing director, said the fund is receiving a lot of interest because there is a limited number of global small cap funds available to the Australian market. She said the new fund fit ...

Climate change opportunities, not just costs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... China he said to the Chinese that we are the world's biggest coal exporter and they are the biggest buyer. We have a huge interest in finding a solution around coal particularly concerning carbon capture and storage," said Senator Wong. Other opportunities ...

Fed does an RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
The RBA did not disappoint market expectations and announced no change in the official interest rate of 7.25 percent while markets interpreted the RBA's accompanying statement as an indication that an interest rate reduction is in the offing. In its ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... January 2006. NEW YORK - An already soaring Wall Street advanced further on Tuesday after the US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and assuaged some of the market's fears about the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average shot up more than ...

Fortitude hires ex-nab and Macquarie staff

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... Raward was the director of capital market origination with nabCapital, specialising in analysing and managing credit, interest rates and the equity risk associated with high yield and convertible arbitrage portfolios. Fortitude Capital currently manages ...

New era in fee disclosure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... Association (FPA) introduced four new guiding principles on how financial planners should manage potential conflicts of interest. Of the four, Principle One, the principle relating to cost of advice, has the biggest impact on the industry because it ...