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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... Ltd, in Singapore, Australian Mines Ltd and Proto Resources & Investments Ltd. Creditors of failed stocklending firm Opes Prime will meet to consider whether to accept a $253 million settlement of their claims from Opes Prime's bankers. On Thursday ...

Local funds won't follow CalPERS lawsuit

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... because they relied on these agencies to provide ratings on instruments such as collateralised debt obligations and sub-prime mortgages - which in this case have proven to be flawed. "I think the main concern with CalPERS and others would be the ratings ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... founder Peter Irvine will address an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce young business forum in sydney. New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Bill English is in Sydney to speak at an Australian Business Economist function on New Zealand's Road to Recovery. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... eighth consecutive loss after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost elections in Tokyo on Sunday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Taro Aso. His election bureau chief said Monday he was set to call a snap poll next month, leading to fears of political ...

Pengana Asian Equities up 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... the correction because we realised even after Lehman collapsed that the market underestimated [the effect of the US sub-prime crisis] and the market's irrational behaviour after that," she added. The second contrarian call she made was that when sentiment ...

Malaysia opens doors to foreign fundies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
Australian fund managers looking to expand in Asia could soon put Malaysia on their watchlist, following Prime Minister Najib Razak's announcement yesterday allowing foreign fund managers to be "fully liberalised" in the country. Razak, in his most ...

Not a happy EOFYS on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... the unemployment rate was at a low 5 per cent - and headed even lower thereafter. Now for the doubling of delinquencies on prime mortgages. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision - what a mouthful - reported ...

GFC highlights five-year outperformers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... 2004, Greece held the Olympic Games, Coldplay's Clocks was on top of the charts and, if you invested $1,000 in Perennial, Prime Value or Fidelity's Australian equities fund, that same capital would be worth over $1,700 today. Rainmaker Information data ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... addresses the University of Western Australia's Institute of Advanced Studies on energy, minerals and climate change. The Opes Prime cases returns to court in Melbourne. On Monday, the Australian share market closed higher, with heavyweights BHP Billiton ...

GFC drives insurance awareness: AXA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... involvement in Lifewise, a public awareness campaign to help address Australia's concerning levels of underinsurance, is a prime example." The survey was conducted by Newspoll in May this year and included over 700 people aged between 18 and 64.