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The Fed may have gone too far

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
While markets have reacted positively, there is a chance that the United States Federal Reserve has gone too far, Michael Power, Investec Asset Management strategist, told Financial Standard this morning. Despite Ben Bernanke saying that he will do ...

Market wrap morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... key speech at Conversation Series lunch in Sydney and Investec Asset Management has a lunch event with its strategist Michael Power. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed slightly weaker ahead of a key German court decision about the euro zone funding ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... included metals and minerals stocks (up 2.53 per cent) and materials stocks (up 2.22 per cent). Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan the prospect of the US Federal Reserve announcing a further round of economic stimulus later this week, on ...

Blackstone appoints senior adviser

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... private equity activities in Australia. "We are delighted that James has agreed to join us as a senior advisor," said Michael Chae, senior managing director at Blackstone and head of private equity for the Asia-Pacific region. We have worked closely ...

Former S&P head moves to Lonsec

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... Paul Pavlidis promoted to chief operating officer with overall responsibility for business management. Research manager Michael Elsworth's role will also be broadened including a title change to general manager - Specialised Research, which spans structured ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... futures contract was 53 points lower at 4,260 points, with 16,386 contracts traded. CMC Markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said general trading on the local market was quiet. "We have a lot of events coming up, so volumes have been poor ...

APRA probe key in NAB case: Lawyers

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... insight into NAB's rating and provision process. It was reported that according to the affidavit, on February 11 2008, Michael Hamar, NAB's group chief risk officer, wrote an email to other nabCapital employees following a meeting with APRA. The email ...

Asset Super and CareSuper merger set for October

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
After a year of delays, industry super funds Asset Super and CareSuper said Friday they would merge on October 26 this year. The boards of the two funds agreed to in-principle support for the merger in September last year subject to due diligence, although ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... healthcare (up 0.76 per cent) and telecoms (up 0.76 per cent) were higher in early trade. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan the Australian market had done well to be close to level at the start of trade after an up-and-down overnight session. ...

ANZ CEO sells shares to fund debt, tax

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
ANZ chief executive officer Michael Smith has sold $10.8 million worth of shares in the bank. In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Friday, ANZ said that Smith sold the shares "to fund a forthcoming income tax payment and to ...