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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower following losses on Wall Street overnight. At 0720 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down six points at 5,938. US stocks finished a touch lower after a mixed round of company ...

Liquidnet increases average trade size in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... $1.8 million for the first quarter of the year, up from $1.7 million at the end of 2014. The company reported that this figure is 390 times greater than the $4,680 average trade size in ASX Centre Point (the ASX's dark pool) over the same period. The ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
The Australian share market is trading lower, weighed down by weakness in the big banks. HC Securities senior client adviser Mark Lennox said the banks were lower because investors had already factored in the probability of another interest rate cut ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
The Australian share market has opened lower in the wake of negative offshore leads and lingering disappointment over trade figures out of China. "Offshore leads weren't great. In combination with that, there's a little bit of negativity from the China ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
The Australian share market is again flirting with the landmark 6,000 point level, which it has not reached in more than seven years. The release of monthly trade balance figures for China later on Monday could give Australian stocks a boost, if it ...

Future Generation fund adds more big names

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
Future Generation Investment Company (FGX) has beefed up its board with the addition of four well-known industry figures. Paradice Asset Management founder David Paradice, Victor Smorgon Group chief financial officer David Leeton, Greenstone Partners' ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
The share market is slightly higher on a quiet day, with the main indices trading within a narrow range around 5,900 points since interest rates were kept on hold. Offshore markets provided positive leads but CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner ...

The first is always the best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
Maybe June. Perhaps one of the 'ber' months of 2015. Could be early 2016 or later that year. Or... until the twelfth of never? This, as much, is what the much-awaited minutes of the 17-18 March FOMC meeting told us. That Yellen & Co, themselves, aren't ...

PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... its members. "At the beginning I joined at a startup business level. We had six people in the advice team and we had to figure out how to provide advice," Blakey says. One of the first steps was setting up HESTA's own Australian financial services licence ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... billion per month flows into the superannuation system from the 9.5% SG, according to research by Rainmaker Information. That figure is notwithstanding additional contributions or income received from existing super investments that must be recycled. ...