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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
The Australian share market continued to rise in morning trade after a strong session on Wall Street and the release of mostly encouraging earnings reports locally. At 1203 AEDT on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 31.1 points, or 0.62 ...

Ex-Macq banker to head retirement home company

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
Ernst & Young's former South Australia managing partner and Minter Ellison advisory board member Mark Butcher will lead a retirement village company. On Tuesday Masonic Homes said Butcher, a prominent South Australian business leader, would become chairman ...

Valuation drop for WHK if merger falls through: Macquarie

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
WHK Group investors run the risk of seeing their shares fall by as much as 13% if the proposed merger with SFG doesn't go ahead, according to analyst research. On Monday SFG Australia said that it had presented WHK Group's board with a non-biding proposal ...

ASIC speeds up misconduct probe

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)'s latest report on the supervision of markets and participants shows that the regulator has significantly reduced the time it takes to start investigations of suspicious market conduct. Of ...

Superpartners CEO joins ASFA board

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
Representative group The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia today said that Superpartners chief executive Peter McNeil would join its board. McNeil has agreed to fill the vacancy for a service provider representative left by Peter Beck ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... open higher after a positive performance on Wall Street buoyed by upbeat earnings results and after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said US economic growth had rebounded from the fourth quarter. At 0901 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price ...

Bernanke pours liquid over Roman burn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... of this into "skyfall" (Finally, I got the chance to use this word). If only its markets were still open to hear what Uncle Ben had to say. As eloquently written in Reuters: "Investors are fearful that the strength of the vote for anti-austerity parties ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
The Australian sharemarket has opened almost 1.5 per cent weaker as former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's strong electoral showing sparked fears of eurozone instability. At 1026 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 75.1 ...

Perpetual shares comeback

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
Listed fund manager Perpetual's share price has nearly doubled in less than five months, as the one-year anniversary of serious changes made at the company draws closer. This morning Perpetual shares cost $40.89, just shy of a 100% improvement after ...

AvSuper appoints Perpetual for a $75m equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
AvSuper has appointed Perpetual Investments for a $75 million Australian equities mandate. This is the first appointment that the Canberra-based superannuation fund has done in the last year and it is also the first time that it does business with Perpetual. ...