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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... cents after the competition watchdog cleared the way for an Asian consortium to buy the company. On Wall Street overnight, stocks rose in the wake of a strong housing report, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumping 0.90 per cent to 17,210.06 po ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... Pattinson are expected to post full year results. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed lower as the major bank stocks fell after the central bank warned it may take action against risky lending. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was was down 39.9 ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... also continued to fall overnight which has put pressure on the materials sector." She said adding pressure to financial stocks was the release of the Reserve Bank of Australia's Financial Stability Review on Wednesday morning which expressed concern ...

UBS launches microcap fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Accumulation Index 4.93% since its inception 18 months ago. The performance was mainly driven by stocks that were trading at substantially lower levels 18 months ago (mostly lower than $250 million), and that are now part of ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... providing some respite as indicators point to a slowdown in China, the world's second-largest economy. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have slumped for the third straight session as data showed a weakening eurozone economy and US tax rules to fight inversions ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... 5,363.0 points. The broader All Ordinaries index was down 69.1 points, or 1.27 per cent, at 5,368.2 points. NEW YORK - US stocks have finished decisively lower, retreating from last week's records in a decline attributed to profit taking and anxiety ...

Aluminum windows and ferries: the case for small-cap investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... time is right to invest in small-caps due to the listingA of 59 eligible companies in the past 20 months. "Of these 59 stocks, the trust participated in just 18, following extensive due diligence on the majority of the new opportunities," Smith said. ...

BetaShares launches US equity ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... provide investors with exposure to S&P 500 companies, while providing regular income that exceeds the dividend yield of the stocks alone. It aims to achieve this by selling some of the upside share price potential of the index in return for additional ...

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STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... out of the blocks early as investors welcomed Scotland's rejection of independence from the United Kingdom, but European stocks overall ended mixed. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index, after impressive morning gains on Friday, closed up 0.27 per cent ...

HOSTPLUS to launch lifecycle option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... growing by $1 million a week. However, he added: "For those of you who are interested, I'm not actually smart enough to pick stocks in the ASX 300, so I've got my money invested in the balanced default option." He also said that members will soon be ...