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Boutique incubator targets Asian wealth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... invest in one or two Asian firms each year. "We're raising quite good money in Australia but the greater European and US investors take the flight to Hong Kong but not that next flight (to Australia)," said Andrew Landman, chief executive, Ascalon Capital ...

Australian market to shrug off Greek woes

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
Australian wealth managers believe that the worsening European debt crisis, with Greece seemingly on the brink of default, will have no major long-term impact on the global financial recovery. Greece is estimated to have unsustainable debt of $456 billion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open higher on Tuesday after Wall Street closed flat overnight while European and Asian markets generally were higher. Oil and metals rose. On the ASX 24 at 0717 AEST, the June share price index futures contract ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open lower on Tuesday on strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight. On the ASX 24 at 0721 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 29 points lower at 4,618. In economics news on Tuesday ...

High net worth clients being under advised

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... doing enough to make the most of out their relationships with high net worth clients, according to a survey of 1,287 US investors, with tax strategies and estate planning the biggest gaps. The Dow Jones Affluent Investor Study found advisers don't do ...

Hedge research warns against poor risk analytics

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... objectives have shifted since last year with "accessing non-correlated strategies" now the top priority of 30 per cent of US investors while diversification and absolute returns declined slightly. In terms of hedge funds, it appears that a number of ...

Mixed results for US industry giants

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
Despite strong results on face value, US investors were largely unimpressed with the third quarter earnings reported by some of the industry's leading lights overnight. BlackRock, the world's largest fund manager, reported higher than expected profits ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
The Australian share market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street indices generally higher, along with precious metals, oil and copper. At 0738 AEST on the Sydney futures exchange, the June share price index contract ...

Freaked out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
"Aaahh Freak out! Le Freak, c'est Chic." (Le Freak, Chic) Had it not been for the already jittery mood in the financial markets, Wall Street would have ignored last night's not so good economic news. The S&P 500 index recorded its biggest drop in more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to post a huge decline at the start of Friday's trading day, following a horror night on offshore markets as Wall Street shed more than three per cent and commodities prices went backwards. At 0757 AEST on the ...