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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... markets are up, boosted by a slew of robust economic data and hopes global policy makers will continue to keep interest rates low. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 0.82 per cent to 6,652.61 points, while the DAX 30 in Frankfurt gained 0.50 per ...

Margin lending through advisers shrank in 2013

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... increased usage of margin lending have softened among brokers, especially those relating to market volatility and interest rates," Shahed said.

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... Japan and China and America. It's easy pickings for the RBA. Governor Glen would more likely than not... not change interest rates.A Not after he's "handover" (from mining to non-resources) speech in Hong Kong last week. Then again, it might not be as ...

Australian investors optimistic of hitting financial goals

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... income returns in 2014 and over the next 10 years.A This is despite a little over half of investors surveyed expect interest rates to rise in 2014 and the fact that the domestic asset class has been outside the top 20 best performing bond markets globally ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... weaken until such time that that depreciation boost economic growth, that prompts monetary authorities to lift interest rates and props the currency back up... and vice-versa.

Whatever works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... US and Europe and Moscow - and speculation over the faster- and sooner-than-predicted US Federal Reserve hike in interest rates hogged most of last week's headline space, changes have also been afoot in China. In a statement on its website dated 15 March ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... news is expected on Friday. The Australian market on Thursday more than one per cent on the prospect of higher interest rates in the US after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said a rate hike may begin "around six months" after the Fed's stimulus program ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... you see a bit of an announcement effect, which is negative for equity markets, whenever central banks talk about interest rates." Historically, the start of a period of tightening interest rates was usually bullish for markets because it indicates an ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... in December 2012 and so were game enough to put that promise on paper that they wouldn't even consider raising interest rates till then. This is the reason why the Fed just dropped that quant threshold but... here we go again. Sooner and faster rate ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... January industrial production. Not to mention, New Zealand. Its economy is gaining such momentum that the RBNZ raised interest rates there only yesterday. Only yesterday, too, we learned that while the unemployment rate remained at 6.0%, Australia added ...

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Blackwattle takes over Quest Asset Partners

KARREN VERGARA
Blackwattle Investment Partners has swallowed up Australian equities manager Quest Asset Partners for an undisclosed sum.

Funds SA poaches Vision Super risk specialist

MATTHEW WAI
Funds SA will welcome a Vision Super executive to replace executive director, governance and strategy Tony Burrill, as he prepares for retirement following a seven-year tenure at the company.

Regal flags muted second-half performance fees

VINNY VUCAGO
Regal Partners expects to recognise at least $122.7 million in fund performance fee revenue for calendar 2026, with market volatility and weaker investment performance limiting the prospect of further material fees in the second half.

Insignia chief draws 'hard line' on NCAs giving retirement advice

RIDDHIMA TALWANI
Insignia Financial chief executive Scott Hartley said he draws a hard line when it come to the new class of advisers (NCAs) giving retirement advice.

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