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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... Australian stocks are likely to open weaker on Wednesday after the Australia Day public holiday, with Wall Street losing ground in late trade to post a decline. At 0827 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 33 ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... suitable jobs. On second thought, never mind suitable, they could not find jobs period. Perhaps to reclaim the moral high ground and of course, so as not to lose seats in the November Congressional elections, President Obama declared what could be considered ...

Towers Watson to fix post-retirement blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
Towers Watson is set to design longevity strategies that best suit super funds and insurers - ahead of the three million Australian baby boomers expected to retire over the next 20 years. Towers Watson (the former Watson Wyatt Australia merging with ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
... expect more of the same this year? Can equity markets, commodity markets and other riskier asset markets continue to gain ground over the next 12 months? To know where we're headed, we must first look at where the bloody hell we are in the current investment ...

ETF Securities ramps up for 2010

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
ETF Securities has gained $100 million in local funds to its exchange traded commodities product (ETC) and is looking to ramp up its local sales activity next year. Nigel Phelan, head of sales for Australia and New Zealand at ETF Securities, said the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... stock markets shook off fears for the future of debt-ridden Greece and surged back into positive territory after losing ground for three straight sessions. As anxiety over Greece's financial plight eased, buyers dominated trading, searching for bargains. ...

Van Eyk ventures into NZ

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... full service module. This includes a New Zealand asset allocation, economic views, New Zealand sector reviews, and on-the-ground financial adviser support model. Van Eyk's national account manager, Luke Fitzgerald, will head up the New Zealand operation. ...

Hunter Hall regains lost ground

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
Hunter Hall Investment Management has recovered two-thirds of the losses from its funds, according to Peter Hall, managing director at the fund manager, who vowed to return all clients losses earlier this year. Hall said the Hunter Hall Global Deep ...

Men behaving womanly

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... less than five years compared to the seven years-plus gap back in the early 1980s. "For the last 20 years, men are gaining ground, and it comes down to their improving education and lifestyle choices such as the elimination of smoking and better attention ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... cent, to 5,778.43. PARIS - The CAC 40 lost 34.1 points, or 0.88 per cent, to 3,829.06. TOKYO - Japanese share prices lost ground as investors fretted about the impact of a stronger yen on exports, overlooking a positive lead from Wall Street. The benchmark ...