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Westpac warns tough year ahead

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... Kelly aims to increase dividends year-on-year and has "drawn a line in the sand" to maintain return on equity for investors above 15%. "Our strong balance sheet and sustainable earnings performance allows us to return three quarters of our profit as ...

Beware greedy SMSF intermediaries

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... is more due to investment markets and their impact on investor confidence as well as the regulatory implications over and above any self-managed super fund drivers."

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... November, they've returned much earlier - the S&P 500 index bottomed at 1278.04 points on 1 June this year and is now 11.7% above that level and 13.5% higher than 2012's opening. They started coming back in June despite the gloomy headlines and disappointing ...

Market wrap Early AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... managers' index (PMI) stood at 50.2 last month, better than 49.8 in September, according to official figures. A PMI reading above 50 indicates expansion while anything below points to contraction. Separately, a survey by HSBC came in at 49.5 in October ...

Perennial defection triggers Zenith review

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... resignation. In the short period since Hayes' return, he has implemented wholesale investment team changes. As mentioned above, three members of his previous investment team at Perennial will be joining him at CFS. Additionally, Daniela Lungu will be ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... 3406.50 points. Madrid's IBEX 35 index of top shares dived 1.64 per cent to 7747.70 points, with Spanish bond yields creeping above 5.6 per cent as bailout concerns intensified. The euro weakened to $US1.2971 from $US1.3060 late in New York on Monday. ...

Future Fund tarred by its tobacco stocks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... recovery post-June has boosted the fund's returns to a three year compound average of 8.5% annually. This is significantly above the 6.3% annual equivalent return from workplace default super funds, albeit the Future Fund has a fundamentally differently ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... added 2.95 (0.10 per cent) at 3,104.12. Europe's main stock markets advanced cautiously and the euro hit a one-month high above $1.31 on easing eurozone debt crisis concerns ahead of a two-day EU summit. At the close, London FTSE 100 index of top companies ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... third-quarter financial results. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets advanced cautiously and the euro hit a one-month high above $1.31 on easing eurozone debt crisis concerns ahead of a two-day EU summit. At the close, London FTSE 100 index of top companies ...

Economic indicators defy equities upside: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... returns investing in the stock market. "It would be imprudent for us to ignore what we see as the ongoing risks detailed above, which only become amplified the longer they remain unaddressed," he said. "Equally, markets are thirsty for what they perceive ...