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Karara pulls retail strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Australian equities investment boutique, Karara Capital is putting the firm's push into the local retail market on ice and focussing it efforts on gaining more institutional mandates. This news comes after Karara Capital advised Standard & Poor's to ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
If you think Australia is having strange debates about how the government should spend GFC stimulus money to pump prime the economy, wait until you hear what they are arguing about in China. China is one of the last bastions of publicly acceptable cigarette ...

Frontier hires analyst

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Frontier Investment Consulting appointed Aaron Yew as analyst. Before joining Frontier Investment Consulting, Yew worked at management consulting firm, Strategic Project Partners and has also worked as an intern at Ernst & Young. "Aaron will join Frontier's ...

Intech signs deal with Suncorp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Intech Investments is partnering with Suncorp Wealth Management to manage the diversified multi-manager options on the Suncorp WealthSmart platform. The core multi-manager products available on the platform cover include Australian shares, international ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
What are they up to? What do they hope to accomplish? I am talking, of course, about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and our very own Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan. What do they have in common? Both still have not learned their lessons. Both want ...

UBS and Præmium talks fail

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
UBS has dropped negotiations with portfolio administration provider, PrA|mium to supply its services to the firm's Australian wealth management division. UBS appointed PrA|mium as a preferred tender in November last year, however the firm said it will ...

Trust appoints managing director

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
Trust Company appointed former Blake Dawson managing partner, John Atkin as managing director and chief executive. Atkin succeeds Jonathon Sweeney, who announced he was leaving the role as in July. Sweeney remains managing director until Atkin takes ...

Central Banks hold fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
The week of central watching finished with the Reserve Bank of Australia, the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England opting to hold monetary policy steady this month. Fixed income markets rallied overnight following unchanged ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
The Australian share market had recovered to be 0.46 per cent in the black soon after noon after dropping nearly three per cent in morning trade on the back of more bad news from Wall Street. At 1230 AEDT, the S&P/ASX200 index was down 26.1 points ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
The Australian share market remained firmly in positive territory at noon, boosted by financial stocks, in light trading as cautious investor stayed on the sidelines. At 1217 AEDT the S&P/ASX200 index was up 120.5 points, or 2.23 per cent, to 5,532.8 ...