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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... added 0.87 per cent to 4,480.46. Tokyo was closed for a public holiday, along with financial markets in Thailand and Malaysia. As well as the news on China's economic front, Asian bourses took their lead from a rally on US markets on Friday that reversed ...

Former AMP chief executive joins Westpac

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
Former AMP chief executive Craig Dunn will join the board of Westpac in June, according to an announcement on the Australian Securities Exchange. Also recently appointed chairman of Sydney's new fintech hub Stone and Chalk, Dunn has more than 20 years' ...

Islamic investment delivers strong return for Crescent Wealth

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... and 61.72% since inception on February 2013. The fund, managed by an investment team based in the United States and in Malaysia, aims to provide returns following Islamic and ethical investment principles. Portfolio manager Monem Salam told Financial ...

Connect Brokers sets up Asian initiative

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... bred complacency." He added that "it is a failure to recognise that the majority of businesses in Asia are SMEs." Within Malaysia, which is Australia's eighth largest trading partner, 99% of companies are SMEs. They account for 32% of the nation's GDP ...

Netwealth launches global stocks trading service

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... TSX (Canada), Euronext Paris (France), Deutsche Boerse (Germany), Euronext Amsterdam (Netherlands), TSE (Japan), KLCI (Malaysia) and HKE (Hong Kong).

Surge in Australian-educated FM professionals heading OS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... the eVestment database work in Australia, with 31.3% going to firms in the US and another 14.0% to the UK. Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore were popular destinations in Asia while Switzerland, France, and the Netherlands were among the top countries ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Toto, I've a feeling we're back in Goldilocksville. Now that the headlines have grown tired of counting and recounting of lives lost - and collateral damages - the US/EU-Russia tits-for-tats, the "humanitarian" trucks toing and froing through the Ukrainian ...

Digital advice to jumpstart $5.6 trillion land grab

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... advice in the next two decades. According to a comprehensive study of 3,100 investors in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia, the concept of 'digital advice' (broadly algorithm-based and automated advice) and 'insurance customised ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... on international markets as investors welcomed news pro-Russian rebels had handed over the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. At 0645 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was up 16 points at 5,511. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... September share price index futures contract was down four points at 5,496. Geopolitical concerns, with the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and attacks on Gaza, have dampened investor sentiment. In local economic news on Tuesday, Reserve Banks ...