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AMP Capital chases Asian growth

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
Retail and institutional investors will be targeted in China and Japan, as AMP Capital chases growth in the Asian region. Plans to provide retail offerings to the Chinese market were currently stalled by laws preventing life companies owning funds management ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... 1,385.97 and the tech-rich Nasdaq leaped 64.84 (2.24 per cent) to 2,958.09. A slightly better-than-expected number on US growth in the second quarter still underlined the snail's pace of the world's largest economy, fueling speculation about additional ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... still not counting the extra gains (for offshore investors) from the peso's 4.8% appreciation this year. Despite weak US growth, a slowdown in China and troubles in Europe, the Philippines' real GDP growth quickened to just over 6.0% in the year to the ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... when the IMF goes cutting (growth), equities go rising. Last night, the IMF nicked a few points off its 2012 and 2013 US growth forecasts. It now expects America to grow by 2% this year and by 2.25% in 2013 because it's still "subject to elevated downside ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... program that aims to encourage borrowing and spending by reducing long-term interest rates as it cut its forecast for US growth. But the Fed has said it was prepared to take more action if needed. At 1200 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ...

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
Armageddon. Catastrophe. Lehman Bros moment. GFC mark II. Game over. Funny but... haven't I heard all this before? Let me think. Yeah right. That's it. "Twas about four years ago when Lehman bit the dust. Remember how you - and your neighbours -- felt ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... weaker-than-expected US headline growth data, offsetting record Spanish jobless figures that stoked concerns on the eurozone. US growth slowed sharply to 2.2 per cent in the first quarter from 3.0 per cent in the last three months of 2011 but consumer ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... has because of one month's disappointing US jobs report? It only reinforces the start of the year outlook that 2012 US growth would be slow. And this is bad because? Au contraire mon amie, it wasn't bad enough to get the Fed to start cranking its green ...

MLC shifts global allocation

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
MLC has shaken up its global shares strategy allocations with a new fund manager and dropping allocations to others. Taking effect immediately, MLC has allocated 11.5% to new manager Delaware Investments and dropped its 8.5% allocation to Capital International. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... US new jobless benefit claims to their lowest point in four years confirmed the improving trend while fourth quarter US growth was left at three per cent, after 1.8 per cent in the third. But that was not enough to dispel the negative mood and Wall Street ...