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Australian stock market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
The Australian stock market looks set to open lower, following falls on Wall Street overnight. At 0654 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 25 points at 5,477. US stocks were lower, led by large declines in technology ...

Bond investors warned not to overlook defence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
While most fixed income investors recognise the need to take a more flexible approach to finding return in a threatening interest rate environment, T. Rowe Price head of international fixed income Arif Husain believes that most investors are overlooking ...

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... life. He says that work hasn't left him with much time for anything else, but that he enjoys golf and skiing in North America. Kelaher forecasts a future with "intense competition between fewer larger players." To him, the biggest challenge over the ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0642 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 15 points at 5,745. Locally on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank holds its monthly board meeting ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... dollar, the West Coast shipping strike and "erroneous seasonal adjustment" for another one of those weak first quarter in America... certainly, the same excuses could not apply to the other slowing big OECD countries. The severe winter, maybe. The port ...

Smart beta here to stay, research confirms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... Europe have evaluated smart beta indexes and only 2% did not anticipate evaluating them in the next 18, compared to North America, where 61% of asset owners evaluated smart beta and 23% did not expect to look at it in the next 18 months. The research ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
PM Capital chairman and chief investment officer Paul Moore always wanted to be a stock picker. He bought his first shares in Blue Metal Industries (later taken over by Boral) while he was still at school and then bought Carlton & United Breweries while ...

Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Move on people, nothing to see here today. Go away and enjoy a long lunch or plant a tree. This applies to equity markets seeking direction from overnight activity on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial index weaved and bobbed through intra-day trade ...

Instos demanding multi-asset alternative strategies

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
Institutions' demand for alternative multi-asset real return strategies presents a cross-border opportunity for both Australian fund managers offshore and overseas fund managers at home. That was the conclusion reached by Perpetual following its recent ...

Forget Australia, head stateside for property yield

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
Forget about Australia's fast rising real estate sector, the next opportunity in that space could be in the United States, as all eyes turn to the timing of interest rate rises. Australia's love affair with property is "certainly greater than Australia's ...