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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... 4,863.36. Oil prices rose sharply as a Saudi-led coalition bombed Houthi Shi'ite rebels in support of Yemen's embattled president. Airline stocks were hit by higher oil prices and news that a pilot appeared to have intentionally caused the deadly Germanwings ...

MyState names tech and operations general manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... technology roles in the UK, and was chief technology officer at AIM-listed Future Internet Technologies. A Moss was also vice president, trading systems infrastructure with Chase Manhattan Bank from 1997 to 1999. MyState's managing director and chief ...

CFA appoints Australia head of advocacy

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... more scope to focus on important issues in our markets and to provide leadership around solutions," CFA Society Sydney president Anthony Serhan said. "The appointment is particularly relevant in the context of the recent Financial Services Inquiry, FOFA ...

Actuaries Institute demands long term policy focus

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... tinkering involves a significant and perhaps unnecessary cost for the industry and consumers to bear," Actuaries Institute president Estelle Pearson said. She added, "With a growing community and political debate about superannuation, it is essential ...

Global dividend growers suit retirement income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... sustainable income growth than strategies which invest with a high yield target. What's more, Capital Group senior vice president Andy Budden says the approach dovetails nicely with the average SMSF or retiree portfolio. "Australian investors have traditionally ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... doing so. Brazil's economic outlook is bogged down by increased political uncertainty (corruption scandal) - despite President Dilma Rousseff's winning the October 2014 run-off elections for a second presidential term - falling commodity prices and the ...

Investment professionals depressed over future employment

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... This means that "we're out-gloomed only by Brazil (14%), Switzerland (13%) and Germany (12%)," CFA Society of Sydney president Anthony Serhan said. The cheerier end of the spectrum shows that major developing economies such as India and China "have more ...

FEATURE: How ETFs are changing adviser asset allocation thinking

LAURA MILLAN, ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... they don't pay commissions means they're now on a level playing field against traditional managed funds." MSCI vice president, ETF client coverage Tim Bradbury agrees that product range and education have been pivotal in shaping market growth: "Breadth ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... $31.81, Rio Tinto dropped 71 cents to $58.49 and Fortescue Metals slipped 2.5 cents to $2.12. Meanwhile, BHP's iron ore president Jimmy Wilson and Rio's iron ore chief executive Andrew Harding are slated to speak at the Global Iron Ore and Steel Forecast ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... cast". This is what Julius Caesar exclaimed when he crossed the river Rubicon back in 49 BC. The same phrase that ECB president Mario Draghi must be uttering to himself as he began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion a month quantitative easing ...