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Economist asleep over budget investment market impact

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... doomsters would like to see. "The problem is that business investment outside mining, and maybe including mining, is pretty poor. We're yet to see a turnaround on that front. The mining investment boom has a long way to deflate and the investment outside ...

Falling rates turn Aussie bonds into "a poor choice"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
Currency risk makes Australian government bonds "a relatively poor choice" for international investors despite their stellar AAA rating, according to Nikko Asset Management head of fixed income in Australia James Alexander. Alexander explained that ...

Asian equities on the rise

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... Sydney, she explained that three to four years ago, many companies in the region had a "bloated cost structure", resulting in poor earnings and poor capital returns. But changes across the market - falling commodity prices, businesses adapting to new ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... to shy away from newspapers. Among miners, BHP Billiton was up 24 cents to $32.80, a day after ratings agency Standard and Poor's predicting weaker cashflows for the company while Rio Tinto lost 28 cents to $59.20. Fortescue Metals was up 10 cents, or ...

CSRI identifies super flaws

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... research at the University of New South Wales Patricia Pascuzzo expanded on these issues in a newspaper column. She cited poor targeting, high complexity, waning community support, limited sustainability and poor longevity risk management as key flaws ...

Magellan ups cash weighting to 15%

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... "anything but normal" and referred to the fall in oil prices, the appreciation of the US dollar, falling Chinese growth and poor economic data in the US in recent months. All of these events "have clouded investors' judgment and increased confirmation ...

Industry meets behind closed doors to fix advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... In line with consumer organisations, she noted that the proposed framework limits the consumer's liability if they receive poor advice. Campo praised the Assistant Treasurer's initiative to adopt "a pragmatic and consultative process" similar to the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... policy meeting. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 42.17 points (0.23 per cent) to 18,037.97 on Monday. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index retreated 8.77 (0.41 per cent) to 2,108.92, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index fell 31.84 (0.63 ...

ISA urges government to keep super safety net

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
Industry Super Australia has called for the super safety net to be retained, arguing that scrapping it would collectively cost employers $1.8 billion. Dropping the safety net would allow retail MySuper funds to compete in the default superannuation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... rose to $US1.0804 from $US1.0725 late in New York on Wednesday. HONG KONG - Asian markets have mostly risen with another poor reading of Chinese manufacturing lifting Shanghai on hopes for further stimulus while a weaker yen boosts Japanese exporters. ...