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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
The Australian stock market has bounced back from last week's losses as news of further economic stimulus in China helps lift commodity prices. CMC Markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said the market was around half a per cent higher, with ...

Young investors happier with advisers

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
Younger investors' perception of financial advisers is generally positive and improving, according to a recent survey commissioned by Lifeplan. The April survey of 409 investors showed under-30s now sit second to over-60s in terms of adviser satisfaction ...

BetaShares US equity ETF rated

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
The BetaShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 ETF has become the fund provider's seventh vehicle to be awarded a 'Recommended' rating by Lonsec. The fund, which has the ASX code QUS, was launched in January and aims to track the performance of the FTSE RAFI US 1000 ...

That elusive 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
Maybe this time. Another day, another crack at that round numbered psychological level (hurdle?) of 6,000 points. The S&P/ASX 200 index has done so repeatedly over the past few weeks only to be pushed back. It tried again yesterday, reached a high of ...

Managed Account Holdings to invest in advisory firms

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
Managed Account Holdings recently announced it will be investing into financial advisory firms with a $5 million expansion capital proposal to wholly owned subsidiary Planner Holdings Limited (PHL). The current proposal suggests PHL will hold up to ...

Small cap fund opens to retail investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
The Cromwell Phoenix Opportunities Fund is now open to a wider range of retail investors after the manager developed a product disclosure statement (PDS) for the fund. Managed by Phoenix Portfolios, the fund launched in 2011 with seed capital from Cromwell. ...

BetaShares launches ASX-listed hedge fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Exchange traded funds (ETF) provider BetaShares listed a hedge fund to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The BetaShares Australian Equities Strong Bear Hedge Fund will invest its assets into cash and sell equity index futures contracts (ASX  ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
The Australian share market has opened lower. At 1010 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 47.3 points, or 0.80 per cent, at 5,830.6, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 44.9 points, or 0.77%, at 5806.6. On the ASX 24 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
The Australian share market has opened higher. At 1010 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 12 points, or 0.20 per cent, at 5,980.4, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up also 12 points, or also 0.20 per cent, at 5,947.4. On ...

Liquidnet increases average trade size in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
Global institutional trading network Liquidnet grew its average Australian trade size to $1.8 million for the first quarter of the year, up from $1.7 million at the end of 2014. The company reported that this figure is 390 times greater than the $4,680 ...