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Emerging markets equity fund launched

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... looks for growing companies with sustainable competitive advantages and where management has been able to deliver returns above the cost of capital. "Many of the portfolio holdings operate dominant franchises - the type of firms that typically perform ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... session. The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 73.84 points (1.47 per cent) to 5,106.59 on Wednesday, almost 15 points above the prior record set on April 24. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 121.45 points (0.67 per cent) to 18,162.99, while ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... the money, which Greece needs to finance a series of debt repayments to the International Monetary Fund. "Today's fall was above all due to the situation in Greece, which may not be able to honour its payments to the IMF, and is making the market a bit ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... sentiment index jumped by 6.4% in May to 102.4 points - the first time since February that optimists outnumbered pessimists (above 100 points) and the highest since January 2014 - from 96.2 in April. An RBA rate cut on the fifth and a "go for growth" ...

Risk management top worry for asset owners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... markets was the least area of concern, coming in at 1%. BNP Paribas Securities Services' Ian Perkins said the result was "far above the traditional worries that have stemmed from regulation in recent years." "The increasingly complex nature of risk management ...

Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... edged up from 49.9 in April to a barely positive 50.9 this month and China's contracted for a third month to 49.1 in May but above April's print of 48.9. Yes Virginia, it's the state of the planet as we knew it last week and last month. The PMI surveys ...

Market to open higher after Wall Street record high

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... and news that CVS Health would acquire senior pharmacy services company Omnicare for $US12.7 billion lifted the S&P 500 above the record it reached on Monday. For the local market on Friday, copper and gold miner PanAust holds its annual general meeting ...

Instos demanding multi-asset alternative strategies

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... trend with investors locally and across offshore markets is the rise of alternatives as investors look for ways to secure above inflation returns in a low growth world. "The average global cash rate has fallen from 4.5% in 2007 to 0.5% today and the ...

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... the paper's authors -- Glenn D. Rudebusch, Daniel J. Wilson, Tim Mahedy -- are seasoned and expert economists and well up above my pay grade, but methinks they must have been smoking too much of the good stuff. It's statistical permissiveness (stupidity?). ...

Fortnum drops upfront risk commissions

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... are incentivised to deliver new business growth." In April, AMP chief executive Craig Meller argued that changes like the above were "required to build trust and secure long-term benefits for... customers." The latest edition of Financial Standard is ...