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Cuffe fund outperforms index by 13.8 pc

RUTH LIEW | THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008

... buoyed by the fund's early exposure to international equities, some of which have also benefited from the weakening Aussie dollar, he said. The global equities exposure included a number of 'tilts' to areas such as global infrastructure, the resources ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP | THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008

... bounce this afternoon but that looked unlikely. "There's a lot of buying around," Mr Klusman said. "But the more the Aussie dollar goes up through our raising of interest rates, the more the Americans say Thank you very much', dump more of our stock ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP | WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008

... is risk aversion in the market, unfortunately Aussie-yen gets sold off, which is what we saw last night, and the Aussie dollar gets sold off as well." Mr Solar said the release today of Australian housing finance data and the Westpac-Melbourne Institute ...

Sub-prime's house of cards

SUZY MAC | FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007

... things tumbled overnight - US shares, the ASX/S&P 200, Asian stocks, the FTSE, US bond yields, gold, base metals, the Aussie dollar and, on the upside, oil prices also dropped. Asian markets tumbled after a Wall Street sell-off, following more sour news ...

Sub-prime chewing up financials

SUZY MAC | THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007

... markets, and many analysts now expect crude to push through the US$100 per barrel by the end of the year. This sent the Aussie dollar to new highs of US94 cents and today's range is forecast between 0.927 and 0.93.4 US cents. While the higher Aussie ...

A tale of two currencies

SUZY MAC | THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007

... cent annually, meaning inflation is still a concern. Meanwhile, the Fed's rate cut to 4.5 per cent helped boost the Aussie dollar to yet another 23-year high of US 0.9338 cents. Indeed, the AUD gained against all G10 currencies, especially versus the ...

Scary markets II

SUZY MAC | FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007

... Offshore markets rolled over and played dead again overnight, scared silly by another petrol price spike, while the Aussie dollar continued to run on ahead. The Australian dollar rose to a fresh 23-year high of 0.9090, after opening in London at 0.9030 ...

Rate reprieve scratch during Cup Carnival?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND SUZY MAC | WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007

Worse-than-expected CPI figures could crash the Melbourne Cup Carnival, while the Aussie dollar dances to the beat of the rate hike speculation. The trimmed mean consumer price index (CPI) figure rose to 0.9 per cent in the September quarter and consensus ...

The worm turns

SUZY MAC | TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007

... year has seen a suspiciously close correlation between movements in the two indexes. On one hand the our stellar Aussie dollar, which has slipped back just slightly from its US91Ac high, it is still inflicting pain on exporters. However, cheaper imports ...

Currency hedging key to international returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS | WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007

... international equities," he said. He said with Australian super funds currently hedging 47 per cent against the Aussie dollar, $1.5 billion ended up disappearing with every one per cent rise in the local currency. As a result, he said 67 per cent of ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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