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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market is set to open lower on Wednesday due to doubts European leaders will agree on a package to resolve Europe's escalating debt crisis. Wall Street and European markets fell overnight due to reports key parts of the rescue ...

Niche and insto licensees to rule by 2020

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
Medium-sized financial planning licensees will be the first to fall by the wayside as the sector restructures over the coming decade, according to a panel of advice experts speaking at the AFA national conference. The new market leaders will be both ...

US unlikely to follow EU short selling ban

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
Asset managers in Europe have reacted against an EU limited ban on short-selling of sovereign bonds but in the US the Securities Exchange Commission said it is unlikely to follow suit. Last week the European Union announced a ban on naked short selling ...

Market Report- Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher, after Wall Street and the major Europen markets finished up overnight. At 0847 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 32 points at 4,281. In economic news on Tuesday ...

Industry panel turns up FOFA heat

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
The 'future is in your hands' industry panel participants treated day one of the 2011 AFA conference to a lively debate over the architecture of the future of financial advice reforms, the regulatory separation of superannuation from the rest of the ...

PPM expands portfolio management team

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
Boutique equities manager Private Portfolio Managers has appointed investment management and research specialist Ian Hardy to its portfolio management team. Hardy comes from Centric Portfolio Managers, the individually managed accounts (IMA) arm of ...

Instos must reassess alternatives portfolios

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
Australian funds should be looking at customised solutions and beta replication, according to a $10 billion global manager, as the way in which institutional investors want to own alternative assets continues to evolve in a fee-constrained world. US ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
The Australian share market was fairly flat at noon with gains among the banks cancelled out by falls in the stocks of many miners. At 1223 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 10.9 points, or 0.26 per cent, at 4,155.8 while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Perennial lands Mercer mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
In a revision of its Australian Socially Responsible shares manager line up, Mercer has appointed a mandate to Perennial Growth Management to manage its Australian shares sectors. Perennial Growth now has about 37.5% of the Australian Shares Socially ...

Antares makes global bond fund management appointment

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
Antares Fixed Income has appointed Mark Nordio as its new global bond fund manager. Nordio comes from BlackRock where he was director and portfolio manager for fixed interest, with responsibility for both domestic and global bonds. In his new role ...