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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
The Australian share market was flat at noon, as financials offset a weaker resources sector. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 1.8 points, or 0.04 per cent at 4,686.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 2.2 ...

BT Wrap releases plain English investor guide

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
BT Wrap joins the campaign to make product disclosure statements much easier to understand through its new Investor Guide. Launched after six months of intensive customer research, the BT Wrap Investor Guide is part of BT Wrap's focus on innovation ...

Hunter Hall regains ground

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Fund manager Hunter Hall has outperformed its respective benchmarks across all of its trusts in the year to October, vindicating the group's stockpicking strategies and value investing model. Speaking at an investor briefing yesterday, the group reported ...

Wingate appoints Laband and Liling

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Wingate Asset Management has finalised its investment advisory committee after appointing investment experts Paul Laband and Ron Liling. They join former ANZ chief economist Saul Eslake, Wingate chief executive Farrel Meltzer and Australian Unity Investments ...

Thanks but no thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... before the Fed handed down QE2. They wanted it... and so desperately. Heck, some even wanted more than the US$600 billion Big Ben handed out. But that was a few weeks ago. Changed my mind. Take it back! Paaa-lease. No wonder the equity market is confused. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving generally positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street indices higher, along with precious metals. Oil was flat. On the ASX24 at 0647 AEDT, the December share price index contract was 16 points ...

Support grows for Asia Funds Passport

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
A new report further supports the push for Australian fund managers' access to rapidly growing investment markets across Asia, with suggestions of APEC potentially establishing a working group on the proposal. Asia's funds management industry apparently ...

No pension for corrupt Bell staff

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
The largest pension fund in the US, CalPERS, will not pay the pensions of certain City of Bell staff following investigations into salary corruption among some of the city's top officials. The California Public Employees' Retirement System said it would ...

Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
"Wall Street drops on China price worries" - afr.com.au. "Wall Street slumps on China concerns" - new.com.au. "Stocks, Commodities Slide on China Concern; Treasuries Tumble" - Bloomberg.com. "US shares drop on China inflation worries" - Reuters via ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
Australian markets are expected to open lower on Monday, after world markets sold off on concerns the Chinese government may slow the pace of its economic growth. On the ASX24 at 0710 AEDT, the December share price index contract was 19 points lower ...