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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... 0.5 per cent, to 5,350.1. The broader All Ordinaries index shed 27.5 points, or 0.51 per cent, at 5,359.7. NEW YORK - US stocks closed in the red on Thursday, with the tech-rich Nasdaq leading the losses for a second straight day as investors weighed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... Australian dollar has dragged all sectors of the local share market down. Dips in copper and gold prices have hurt resources stocks and, together with the Aussie dollar's rise to about 92 US cents, have hit local equities hard, Bell Direct equities analyst ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
Australian stocks have opened higher, following gains on European and US markets overnight. CMC Markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said the rally on global markets came after several days of weakness. He said European markets recorded ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... Stability Review. Nufarm is expected to post first half results. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed lower as gold stocks came under pressure because of a significant fall in the price of the precious metal. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index shed ...

Low volatility investing exploits low risk anomaly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... Rainmaker Adviser Big Day Out seminar in Sydney, said Robeco calls this relationship the 'low risk anomaly'. "Indeed, low risk stocks achieve better risk-adjusted returns than higher risk stocks," he said. The anomaly is so strong "that there has never ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
Australian stocks have started the week lower, following a sell-off on Wall Street on Friday. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said US markets moved lower during Friday's session as investors took profits following recent gains, putting the local market ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... crisis in Ukraine would not seriously damage the economies of other countries in Europe. On Wall Street in the US overnight stocks bounced back from the previous day's Federal Reserve-sparked losses as investors were encouraged by favourable US economic ...

Market Vectors ETF gets Lonsec rating

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... core portfolio.A The methodology is well suited to the Australian market, which is heavily concentrated with the top 10 stocks making up more than 50% of the top 200 listed companies by market capitalisation. Our research shows that MVW's underlying ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
The sharemarket is flat in early trade as investors ignore positive offshore leads. US stocks moved higher as Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments that he had no designs on a larger break-up of Ukraine eased investor tensions. But there was no ...

AXA IM includes ESG in smart beta offering

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... requirements for a smart beta strategy." McDonald said ESG concerns would be introduced to the existing vanilla strategy. Stocks already included in the strategy that are "abject failures" from an ESG perspective will be kicked out of the portfolio ...