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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... $2.46. Oil and gas supplier Woodside Petroleum was 27 cents higher at $34.46, and Santos was up 25 cents at $7.25. Construction giant Leighton Holdings was four cents richer at $21.74 after it said it would sell its John Holland subsidiary to a Chinese ...

BTFG restructures investment business

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... known, ties together Advance Asset Management, Westpac Online Investing and BT's own in-house advice model portfolio construction team - eQR. The company's boutique investment business Ascalon will continue to operate alongside BT Investment Solutions ...

Lonsec gains 2,800 users through iRate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... had a compelling investment research offering and we are excited to now couple this with market leading portfolio construction advice and client reporting tools," Lonsec Fiscal joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie said. In 2015 Lonsec plans to release ...

Global shares tipped amid slow local growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... However, Oliver said he did not expect Australia to go into recession. "We've seen housing prices pick up, housing construction is picking up, investment outside of the mining sector is showing signs of improvement, retail sales have been growing at ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... January. In local economic news on Friday, the Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association's performance of construction index (PCI) for November is due out. In equities news, Premier Investments, Funtastic and Washington H Soul Pattinson ...

NAB launches Australia's first certified climate bond

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... Tasmania, Western Australia, NSW and the ACT. Fourteen of these Australian facilities are operational and three are under construction. All are project finance facilities originated and serviced by NAB. NAB group executive for product & markets, Antony ...

Don't underestimate LNG boom: BNP Paribas

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... income in Australia James Hayes. Hayes said there is a tendency to overlook the LNG sector, perhaps because of a long construction period that has been plagued with political difficulties. But he said this tendency is an error. "A lot of people are not ...

Altius launches ethical bond fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... Sustainability Policy, with companies in the universe given a sustainability rating which is incorporated into the portfolio construction process," Bovingdon explained. "This ranking process is intended to assess the impact of the company's operation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... 2,779.53, but Hong Kong fell 0.95 per cent, or 225.68 points, to 23,428.62. The US Commerce Department on Tuesday said construction spending rose 1.1 per cent in September, almost twice as much as expected, while industry specialist AutoData said the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 102.75 points, or 0.58 per cent, to 17,879 points following a rise in US construction spending and encouraging auto and Cyber Monday sales data.