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G-20 reasons to be hopeful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
A summit to have another summit. If anything, this was the consensus reached at the 4-5 September G-20 meeting in London whose finance ministers and central bankers continue to disagree to agree. But whereas the previous two meetings - November 2008 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... with investors tested by a mixed US employment report after encouraging words from the heads of the IMF and European Central Bank. The gains were welcome after a four-day losing streak on concerns tentative signs of recovery could be snuffed out by rising ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... lifting on the market. "They're adding 50 per cent of the points, so there's a bit of inspiration for people to be buying bank stocks" he said. ANZ Banking Group gained 39 cents, or 1.84 per cent, to $21.54, National Australia Bank added 25 cents, or ...

Future Fund books 4.2pc loss

FUTURE FUND UPDATE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... "Investment mandates for the funds became effective on 29 July 2009 and set a benchmark return of the Australian three month bank bill swap rate +0.3% per annum calculated on a rolling 12-month basis. Investments are to minimise the probability of capital ...

GIC eyes US and European investments

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
The $120 billion Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) is expanding its investment scope, appointing a company president based in America and also Europe. Lim Chow Kiat was appointed president of the corporation's European office based ...

Asian equities approach fair value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Financial planners may want to reassess their clients allocation to Asia's emerging markets as one investment specialist reckons Asian equities are no longer cheap. Stuart James, senior investment specialist at Aberdeen Asset Management, said Asia's ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... the 1990s that, like the concrete beaches and bridges to nowhere that they funded, led the economy nowhere. And with the Bank of Japan back to its zero interest rate policy, new PM Yukio Hatoyama needs to hit the ground running. Among the host of problems ...

Super funds to take the reins off bond managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... benchmarks. Peter Dorrian, vice president and head of remarketing at PIMCO Australia and New Zealand, said signals from the Reserve Bank of Australia of rising interest rates means fixed income investment managers could add alpha if they invested outside ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... share price index contract was 17 points lower at 4419. In economic news, the Australian Industry Group and Commonwealth Bank release the Australian Performance of Services Index (Australian PSI) for August. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from the key Wall Street and European indices overnight, and from another drop in the price of crude oil and base metal copper, although precious metals were higher. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney ...