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Eaton Vance affiliate names Aust MD

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Parametric, a majority-owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp, has appointed Scott Lawrence as its managing director for Australia. Lawrence has been performing this Melbourne-based role on a consultancy basis for the past ten months and will be responsible ...

Nice one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
As with most stock markets the world over, the Australian equity market has gotten off to a good start in the New Year despite gloomy expectations surrounding the global outlook and indications of weakening in the domestic economy. With only two trading ...

ETF services expanded with cloud

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
Cloud technology is now driving full automation of the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) lifecycle, with one global investment servicing firm introducing a solution for development of new ETF products. State Street's new TotalETF product offers integration ...

Global ETP markets earn $151bn in 2011

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
The global exchange-traded product industry hit $1.5 trillion by year end, up 2.9%, with net inflows of $151.9 billion in 2011, according to the latest ETP Landscape report from the BlackRock Investment Institute. The exchange-traded product (ETP) market ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Something looks wrong - very, very wrong - with how financial markets are conducting themselves nowadays. Investors greeted 2012 with almost universal agreement that the global growth outlook would be worse than it was in 2011 - the World Bank recently ...

MLC cuts PDS down on flagship products

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
In accordance with the Government's June 22 deadline, MLC has cut the PDS for two of its flagship products to the required eight-page short-form after already releasing a short-form PDS for its MLC MasterKey Business Super in November last year. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly lower. At 0635 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was down six points at 4,180. In economic news on Wednesday, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment ...

FSU slams banking sector cost cutting plans

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
The Finance Sector Union, representing workers at Australia's big four banks, said job cuts in the banking industry cannot be justified. Reports today claim thousands of bank jobs could be on the line over the next two years as part of major cost cutting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following Europe's lead which shrugged off a wave of ratings downgrades to end in positive territory. At 0630 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up nine points at 4,137. ...

Wagging the dog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... spun depending on which way the stock indices performed. Dow down because US retail sales increased by only 0.2% in November - less than the expected 0.6% gain the smallest rise in five months. Dow rose on continued positive trend in US retail spending. ...