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Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... despite a soft lead from overseas. US markets were closed on Friday for the Independence Day public holiday and European stocks mostly finished last week on a negative note, but Morgan's senior private client adviser Bill Chatterton said local investors ...

Investors Mutual gets in on LIC act

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... ready-made diversified portfolio of Australian shares. QV Equities Limited (ASX: QVE) invests in companies outside the top 20 stocks in the ASX 300, an approach which Investors Mutual founder and investment director Anton Tagliaferro hopes will appeal ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... healthy 288,000 jobs in June, while the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 per cent from 6.3 per cent in May. LONDON - European stocks ended the week on a muted note as traders paused after the previous day's solid gains that followed forecast-busting US ...

FEATURE: In search of the missing asset class

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... term, be the best returning asset class. However, at this point in the cycle, with interest rates at record lows, bank stocks arguably over-valued and concerns over the future of the mining sector, there are doubts over whether the performance of the ...

Adviser appetite for infrastructure investments increasing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... risk/reward pay-off which Frankish said makes the sector most compelling to retail investors. While utilities and infrastructure stocks are yielding roughly the same as the wider equity market at around 5.5%, the defensive qualities of the sector means ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... be coming back into the market. "Investors are trying to take advantage of some fairly cheap valuations on some of these stocks and the banks are doing okay as well after we have gone through a bit of a slow period," he told AAP. The market will also ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... be coming back into the market. "Investors are trying to take advantage of some fairly cheap valuations on some of these stocks and the banks are doing okay as well after we have gone through a bit of a slow period," he told AAP. The market will also ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
A rebound in the local banking sector has helped the Australian share market to open higher, after Wall Street stocks surged to new records. Strong Chinese manufacturing figures and surprisingly good US car sales pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Manny Pohl issues prospectus for new retail LIC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... companies and cash," he said. "Barrack Street will provide investors with a convenient and familiar pathway to high quality stocks outside the ASX top 50." ECPAM's philosophy is based on two hypotheses about market inefficiencies. One is that, on average ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... overnight? We have to thank Bloomberg for that and a reader who goes by the handle "Goldcoaster". According to Mr. Goldcoaster, "Stocks are up because of record reverse repo unwind" so I decided to investigate. And yes, indeed! The Fed sold US$339.481 ...