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Pioneer Capital awarded New Zealand Super mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... Group. The Fund currently has around $3.5 billion invested in New Zealand, including more than $1 billion in the local sharemarket, up from $2.4 billion in June 2009.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
Australian bond futures prices have moved little, with nothing to drive price changes because of a lack of significant economic data. St George economist Janu Chan said there was a weakening US Treasury bonds and a fall in sharemarkets during the overnight ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... or 17.16 points, to 2,300.59. Seoul also closed flat, gaining 0.95 points to 2,001.05. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket rose on Friday, paced by tech companies Xero and Diligent Board Member Services, after the 19 per cent stag of SLI Systems ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
The Australian sharemarket has opened more than one per cent higher after strong US jobs numbers pushed American stocks to a record high and helped miners outperform the market. Official US Labor Department data showed the US economy added 165,000 jobs ...

NZ Super sells forestry assets to Chinese state owned company

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... an additional 1.25% of Kaingaroa Forest. The Fund also has more than a billion dollars invested in the New Zealand sharemarket.

ESG risks can wipe $21.4bn off sharemarket: study

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
Mismanaging the risks associated with Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) issues can cost businesses as much as $21.4 billion, according to an ESG impact study on ASX-listed companies by Credit Suisse. Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) issues ...

Refresher pause?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... GDP average quarterly growth is now only less than 0.4% over the past four quarters. But as Malcolm Maiden wrote, "Sharemarket investors buy the future rather the present, however, and when they look at the US market and the companies that inhabit it ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... per cent this year" and "Unemployment is...still 2.5 percentage points higher than it is here, at 7.9 per cent," "Sharemarket investors buy the future rather the present, however, and when they look at the US market and the companies that inhabit it ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
The Australian sharemarket has opened almost 1.5 per cent weaker as former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's strong electoral showing sparked fears of eurozone instability. At 1026 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 75.1 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
The Australian sharemarket has opened higher as investors continue to chase high yielding stocks. At 1028 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 19.3 points, or 0.38 per cent, at 5,037.4 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...