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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... Economic news on Monday includes the Australian Industry Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers' Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI) for February, TD Securities and the Melbourne Institute's Inflation Gauge for February, the Australian ...

Malaysia tops shariah funds list

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... Malaysia has been ramping up its Shariah fund offerings in a bid to establish itself as a center for Shariah fund manufacturing, noted the report. Today, Malaysia tops the list for most highly developed regulatory structure for Islamic finance in the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... to profitability. The market also got some grim economic news on Tuesday: the New York Federal Reserve's regional manufacturing index showed a much deeper contraction in activity than expected. President Barack Obama is set to sign the $US787 billion ...

BNY Mellon to ramp up Asia and Aus presence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
Fund manager and asset servicing firm BNY Mellon plans to increase its manufacturing base in Asia, including Australia, and the launch of its domestic equities fund Ankura Capital is just the beginning of an expansion plan in the year ahead. Visiting ...

Corporate super adjusts to crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... looking at how can the [former] member be best looked after. We have done that on a couple of funds. In the car manufacturing industry for example, where there's been wholesale redundancies, we've worked with the employer to change the benefit design ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... will be released. Also on Monday, the Australian Industry Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index for January and the Reserve Bank of Australia's index of commodity prices for December are due. In company news, half ...

AMP forays into SMAs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
... has launched its own separately managed accounts product following advisor feedback. Paul Sainsbury, AMP product manufacturing director, said the launch of the product, the AMP Personalised Portfolio, followed advisor feedback for an offering that combines ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... economic outlook index declining to 47.2 from 55.4 in November. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) forecasts manufacturing sector revenues to fall by 1.1 per cent in 2009 and non-manufacturing to rise by a just 0.7 per cent. The ISM report also ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... off staff. As US businesses turn to Scrooge, the global economy also turns to Scrooge. News overnight shows that manufacturing in the US, the Eurozone, China, Russia and South Africa are shrinking. More will follow. Ghost of Christmas Past. Low interest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... Institute inflation gauge for November. The Australian Industry Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index for November also is due. In Sydney, the 10th Papua New Guinea Mining & Petroleum Investment Conference and the ...