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Surge in Australian-educated FM professionals heading OS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... the eVestment database work in Australia, with 31.3% going to firms in the US and another 14.0% to the UK. Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore were popular destinations in Asia while Switzerland, France, and the Netherlands were among the top countries ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Toto, I've a feeling we're back in Goldilocksville. Now that the headlines have grown tired of counting and recounting of lives lost - and collateral damages - the US/EU-Russia tits-for-tats, the "humanitarian" trucks toing and froing through the Ukrainian ...

Digital advice to jumpstart $5.6 trillion land grab

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... advice in the next two decades. According to a comprehensive study of 3,100 investors in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia, the concept of 'digital advice' (broadly algorithm-based and automated advice) and 'insurance customised ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... on international markets as investors welcomed news pro-Russian rebels had handed over the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. At 0645 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was up 16 points at 5,511. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... September share price index futures contract was down four points at 5,496. Geopolitical concerns, with the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and attacks on Gaza, have dampened investor sentiment. In local economic news on Tuesday, Reserve Banks ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... were starting on the front foot. Wall Street bounced back on Friday, a day after selloffs in the wake of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in rebel-held eastern Ukraine. Mr Farnham said that while the market was slightly higher, a fall in ...

Down one day, dip buying the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
Just when we thought it was no longer safe to go back into the water...... dip buyers again went buying the dip. We don't have to go very, very far back in history to see this for this was clearly on parade just over the past very few days. Recall how ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... market on Friday edged higher despite local investors and markets around the world being unnerved by the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 9.3 points, or 0.17 per cent, to 5,531.7 ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
Australian shares are lower at noon following the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in Ukraine. Wall Street retreated sharply off the back of the news overnight. The Dow Jones closed 161.39 points, or 0.94% A lower to 16,976.81 after reaching a record ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
"Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace..." -- Imagine, John Lennon On their own, they could have been easily ignored by financial markets - and dip ...