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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... metals lost 6.5 per cent to $4.69. The major banks were all around two per cent lower. US stocks have closed with losses well above one per cent as negative news continued from Europe. National turnover was 269.2 million securities worth $797.4 milli ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... Ordinaries index lost 6.2 points, or 0.15 per cent, to 4,208.5 points. NEW YORK - US stocks have closed with losses well above one per cent as negative news continued from Europe, with Greece's woes deepening and Spain falling into recession. Strong ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... country that brought the world the story of the "Sword of Damocles" is itself now that very sword dangling precariously above the heads of world financial markets. Any moment now. Events in Greece over the past few days have jacked up investor fears ...

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... comfort. This is the thing - it's not that spooky yet. Despite the scary headlines, the VIX "fear" index is less than a tick above 20 points. That's not fear. It jumped to 45.5 in October last year. That was scary. That was fear. That's also when the ...

BlackRock funds target new investment climate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... alpha generation." The BlackRock Australian Equity Opportunities Fund (BAEOF) aims to deliver returns that are 8% per annum above the S&P/ ASX 200 Accumulation Index (before fees) over rolling 3-year periods. "We think the Fund provides a superior way ...

Private equity tax treatment under scrutiny

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... investment manager. "We would consider the program to be very sound - but definitely in that range of 5-10 percentage points above public markets."

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... looking all that flash. Selling in May is starting to look like a good proposition at this point. But as the paragraphs above show, longer-term, markets always find something, somehow, somewhere to keep their animal spirits alive. And with the Fed and ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... In other news, ports and rail operator Asciano said it expected earnings for the second half of calendar 2012 to come in above the prior year. Asciano was up four cents at $4.79. Retailer Harvey Norman said pre-tax profit for the first nine months of ...

Mexican standoff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012

Carter exits QIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... 22 years into one of Australia's leading unlisted property managers." "Under his stewardship QIC GRE continued to deliver above benchmark performance to our clients, was instrumental in attracting many new clients and just last year led a record $1.72b ...