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The Australian share market is expected to open weaker as a poor lead in the US is expected to flow through to domestic markets, despite another strong performance by commodity prices overnight. With the start of December, trade volumes will start to ...

Asia-Pacific clear leader in September: S&P

... across the developed world regions, with Asia-Pacific once again dominating the discrete cap-ranges. In the Emerging Market Index, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America posted gains of 7.18 per cent, 2.05 per cent and 1.17 per cent respective, while ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2005
... Nasdaq, the day's percentage drop was the biggest decline since April 15. The slide in the S&P 500 pushed the broad market index back into negative territory for the year. LONDON - British shares sharply, hit by concerns over inflation in the United ...

Risk-return numbers fail to tell the story

... after costs. The group claims this will be the case because on aggregate investment managers can only achieve the market index performance before fees. Other findings were that the ratios were inconsistent and moved from good to bad and back across periods ...

Benchmarking costing investors millions: MLC

... is allowing fund managers the flexibility to invest only in their best ideas, unconstrained by the make-up of the market index. "MLC encourages our managers to invest our clients' money in the way they would invest their own."

HHG to be added to indexes

Ratings agency Standard and Poor's has announced changes to various Australian equity market indexes, pending the successful demerger of the AMP group. Effective from the close of business on 17 December 2003, HHG PLC will be added to the both the S&P/ASX ...

Hedge funds underperform equity markets: Hennessee

Hedge funds continued to underperform broader US equity market indexes in October, according to hedge fund consultant Hennessee Group. Hennessee said its hedge fund index rose by 2.87% in the month, bringing the return over 12 months to 16.48%. By comparison ...

Afternoon market report: Trade thins as Melbourne Cup takes precedence

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2003
The Melbourne Cup took centre stage as afternoon trade on the Australian share market slowed to a dribble, although the broader market indexes still managed to end the day in positive territory. "The market was a lot stronger earlier in the day when ...

Morning market wrap: Local shares to get boost from raid on AMP

Broader US equity market indexes ended the overnight session flat, with volumes low ahead of the Labor Day long weekend. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 6.7 points (0.1%) to finish at 9,333.8, while the S&P 500 gained less than 0.1 of a percentage ...

S&P announces new index additions

Equity market index provider, Standard & Poor's, today announced three new additions to major Australian share market indexes. As of 2 September, Alinta Limited will be added to the S&P/ASX 100 index. Skilled Engineering Limited and ARC Energy will ...