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Franklin appoints head of sales

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
Franklin Templeton Investments Australia has named Keri Pratt as the new head of institutional sales with responsibility for Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton, Pratt worked for GMO Australia where she held the role as head ...

ClearView expands advice division

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
ClearView Wealth Limited has expanded its advice division with the number of advisers in its dealer group increasing more than one-third since December. This expansion, announced via an ASX update, reflects ClearView's advice strategy which includes ...

'Brownfield' infra better suited to pension funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
Governments hoping to secure pension fund investments into infrastructure projects should focus on 'brownfield' assets rather than expecting them to take on 'greenfield' risks, said European investor Antin Infrastructure Partners. Referring to British ...

Investors focus on Russian consumer stocks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
Russian consumer stocks are a favoured investment choice in Eastern Europe, as wealth in the region rises and the average debt burden remains low. Michael Hanson-Lawson, chief executive officer of regional investment house East Capital said that although ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... the yen higher, as the optimistic outlook at the start of the year waned. In the first full day of trading after the long Easter weekend break, Tokyo fell 0.09 per cent, or 8.24 points, to 9,538.02, Seoul slipped 0.13 per cent, or 2.67 points, to 1,994.41 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... the yen higher, as the optimistic outlook at the start of the year waned. In the first full day of trading after the long Easter weekend break, Tokyo fell 0.09 per cent, or 8.24 points, to 9,538.02, Seoul slipped 0.13 per cent, or 2.67 points, to 1,994.41 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... Australian sharemarket has opened one per cent lower as investors reacted to weak US jobs figures released at the start of easter break. At 1016 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 40.1 points, or 0.93 per cent, at 4,279.7, while ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... looking at you kid, and kid you're not looking good. A weaker-than-expected US non-farm payrolls report released during the Easter break punctuated a week of not so good news for the equity markets, re-igniting the uncertainty over America's and the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... Australia is due to release its first quarter 2012 Operations Review. In Australia, the market on Monday was closed for the Easter public holiday. NEW YORK - US stocks tumbled Monday after last week's disappointing jobs report showed a slowdown in hiring ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... director Bill Chatterton said the market was being led by the US falls and by modest volumes being traded in the lead-up to Easter. "It looks like we're going to be led by the US today," he said. Minutes from the US Federal Reserve's March 13 policy ...