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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange at noon AGO - ATLAS IRON LTD - up two cents, or 1.3 per cent, at $1.57 Atlas Iron annual general meeting ARI - ARRIUM - in a trading halt, last traded at 80 cents Steelmaker Arrium is set to announce ...

Avoid estate planning mistakes

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
Advisers may need more technical and compliance knowledge to make sure that they meet clients' needs with estate planning, said Equity Trustees Limited. Actually drafting a Will or documenting an estate plan may prove more complex than some had realised ...

Don't ignore China banks: Macquarie

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... on assets (ROA), the entire sector - worth an estimated US$20 trillion - is making a 20% return on earnings (ROE), said Victor Wang, deputy head of Hong Kong and China research at Macquarie Capital Securities. Negativity over banks in China stems from ...

Job cuts at PIS

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Professional Investment Services has announced structural changes that will see management roles cut. Chief executive Peter Walther in a statement said that while the changes were not motivated by cost cutting, nor were they based on performance of ...

Schroders wins top fund manager award

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
Schroders Investment Management has won the top fund manager award, the Golden Bull, for the second year in a row at the Australian Fund Manager Award in Sydney last night. The event, held at Sydney's Doltone House, was hosted by the Australian Fund ...

Future Fund tarred by its tobacco stocks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
An otherwise robust performance by the Future Fund was undermined this week when its senior executives were forced to justify their tobacco investments before a Senate Committee. Appearing before the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Senate ...

Australia ranks third in Global Pensions

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
The 2012 Mercer Global Pension Index has shown that Australia has come in third place out of 18 countries, beating the likes of Switzerland, Canada and the UK. The index which covers over half of the world's population has found that Australia's retirement ...

VFMC names new chief

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
Victorian Funds Management has appointed Warren Lee as a chief executive officer, effective next Monday. Lee joins VFMC after more than 15 years with AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Limited where he held the role as a chief executive officer of Australia ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
The Australian share market has broken the 4500 level for the first time this year, led by big gains in the resource and energy sectors. At 1201 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 21.4 points, or 0.48 per cent, at 4,503.3 points ...

Key local appointment for Robeco

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
Netherlands-based asset management firm, Robeco, recently announced the appointment of Brett Penprase as senior sales executive in Sydney. Penprase will focus on driving institutional and wholesale sales in Australia along with bringing a high-quality ...