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Mercer's new retirement fund puts emphasis on capital growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... more members approach retirement. "What our product is hoping to do is utilise a certain manager skill set to identify stocks that will do better in an after-tax sense compared with a before-tax return environment," Hughes said. The actively-managed ...

Environmental trends a boost for Impax

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... the returns on offer, especially as major economies move to reduce carbon emissions and recycle more. "The universe of stocks has increased by around 10 times in the last 13 years and the number and size of M&A transactions have also significantly increased," ...

Is it safe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... the day before last Thursday. The reason for the reversal? Allow me to quote Reuters quoting the Wall Street Journal, "...stocks rebounded after a Wall Street Journal analysis said the market may be misreading the Fed and that a reduction in bond buying ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 20.1 points, or 0.42 per cent, to 4,723.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks finished a turbulent day mostly higher as the market bounced back from two straight days of big declines after the Fed set ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... weaker as an Australian dollar trading below 92.50 US cents encourages overseas investors to sell banking and resource stocks. Local shares are subdued, following a two per cent-plus plunge on Thursday, following the US Federal Reserve's plan to end ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 97.9 points, or 2.02 per cent, to 4,743.9 points. NEW YORK - US stocks plunged, continuing a global markets rout spurred by the Federal Reserve's plans to cut stimulus and more bad news in China's ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... supportive," Mr Lucas said. "Today will be a very interesting positioning day. The markets will enjoy punishing top-heavy stocks as the carry trade unwinds, profits are locked in... It will be a very tough day to be a bottom-up investor." In the mining ...

The Big Benny sings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... song...and it was a chorus of song sang blue. Bloomberg: "Bernanke Says Fed on Course to End Asset Buying in 2014" Reuters: "Stocks, bond prices drop as Fed points to reduced bond buying" Financial Times: "Bernanke sees 2014 end for QE3" Wall Street ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 47.2 points, or also 0.98 per cent, to 4,841.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks have fallen sharply after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed may begin to taper bond purchases later this ...

End of QE sounds death knell for 'zombie' stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
The tapering of quantitative easing (QE) will burst the bubble in high-yielding 'zombie' stocks, according to UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank's James Humphreys. Stimulus measures by central banks in Europe, the US and Japan have propped up global ...