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Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
Australian stocks have opened weaker, with mining companies posting the largest falls amid broad based declines. Baillieu Holst director Richard Morrow said the local market fell in line with a disappointing night on offshore markets, where the Dow ...

Super funds at a 34-month high

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
The recovery in super fund returns is continuing with the SelectingSuper Workplace default option index climbing again to a 34-month high of 12.6% by end February 2013. Super fund returns over the past year are now so strong that they are three times ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after gains on Wall Street. At 0825 AEDT on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 12 points at 4,988, with 4,271 contracts traded. In economics news on Wednesday, the Australian ...

Paradice debuts fund for retail investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
Paradice Investment Management has launched its first fund for retail investors, which will be offered through Westpac's advice and IFA channels and available through the BT and Asgard Wrap platforms. The Paradice Global Small Mid Cap Fund has appointed ...

Social networks boost demand for financial advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
Social networks have made financial services more accessible and they have boosted the demand for advice, according to the latest data released by the Financial Planning Association (FPA). Over 26,000 Australians used the 'Find a Planner' directory ...

CalPERS awards $500m multi-asset mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
One of the best-known pension funds in the US has awarded a significant mandate to Standard Life Investments' top-performing multi-asset fund. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is investing US$500 million with the Edinburgh-based ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
Get behind me Satan! I was ever so tempted to simply regurgitate the financial headlines and commentaries and blogs that went blinkety-blink on my screen this morning. It would have made my day a bit easier. The headlines differed yes...but at the same ...

Asset allocation shifts as EM turns strategic: MFS

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
Institutional investors are starting to look at the emerging market asset class more of a 'strategic' rather than an 'opportunistic' play, according to a visiting global portfolio manager. Thomas Melendez, Institutional Equity Portfolio Manager - MFS ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
Now wasn't that just classic entertainment? I doubt that even the best of the best comedic minds could come up with a farce such as the one the Australian Labor Party delivered for our viewing, hearing and reading pleasure yesterday. For after all the ...

AMP awarded $800m equity mandate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
AMP Capital has been awarded an $800m equity mandate by Insurance Australia Group (IAG), Financial Standard understands. The mandate has gone to the AMP Enhanced Index Share fund, which invests in companies listed on the ASX. The strategy combines strong ...