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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set for a flat open after a sluggish lead from Wall Street. At 0656 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up three points at 5,623. Locally on Wednesday, Reserve Bank deputy governor Philip Lowe ...

Damned lies and (actual) stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself." -Paul Joseph Goebbels It may not be as sinister as what Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister intended it to be but the Bank of Japan (BOJ) continues ...

Morphic added to Macquarie platforms

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Morphic Asset Management's Global Opportunities Fund (MGOF) has been added to the Macquarie Wrap Super and Pension Platform. The MGOF was already available on the Macquarie Wrap Investment service, BT wrap and Netwealth, and the fund manager said it ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
You name it, we've got it. It's the drop in oil prices, it's the recovery in oil prices. It's the strong US dollar, it's the weakening US dollar in recent weeks. It's the "transitory" weakness in the US economy, it's the weakening US economy, it's... ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
The Australian stock market looks set to open higher, following strong gains on Wall Street. At 0653 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 39 points at 5,726. The S&P 500 in the US rose to a fresh record close, led by strong ...

Folkestone develops two Melbourne properties

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Real estate fund manager Folkestone has announced two new developments in Melbourne. The first is a 3.4 hectare former Bunnings site in Altona North, next to its existing Millers Junction development. Folkestone hopes to consolidate these holdings to ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... the 1.1% gain in March. The year-on-year comparison underscores the weakness in US retail spending, down to just 0.9% in April - the slowest since 2009 -- from 1.7% in March. This measure had been steadily on a down slope since hitting a year-on-year ...

Former Mercer partner joins Cooper Investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Melbourne-based Cooper Investors has confirmed that Steve Schubert joined the company in April as chief operating officer. Cooper Investors managing director, Peter Cooper, said the appointment of Schubert "is the final link in creating a long term ...

Argo lodges infrastructure LIC prospectus

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Argo Investments has lodged a prospectus for Argo Global Listed Infrastructure with ASIC. As reported in Financial Standard in April, AGLI will invest in a diversified global listed infrastructure securities and infrastructure fixed-income securities ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Yes! This was my jubilant exclamation as I watched the S&P/ASX 200 index started climbing from the get go yesterday. Yup, I expected as much given the good news on or before "Mother's Day" - goldilocks US employment report, clam in the bond markets ...