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FEATURE: The alpha hunters

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... while around 21% is made up of oil, gas and basic resources. In the US S&P 500, financials make up 16.5%, while in the S&P Europe 350 index, financials make up 21.9%. Canada's TSX Composite index is one of the closest to Australia's, with 34.1% financials ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... with markets largely shrugging off the Bank of England's decision to hold interest rates. However, markets on continental Europe were down, with Frankfurt's DAX 30 giving up 0.55 per cent to stand at 9,454.54 points and the CAC 40 in Paris losing 0.66 ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... stocks, which have experienced some of the heaviest selling over the past two weeks, continued to show weakness. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets retreated further as Ukraine-Russia tensions and the IMF cutting its forecast for global growth offset ...

AMP launches infrastructure and real estate UCITS platform

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... institutional clients for pooled fund exposure to these capabilities and there are plans to expand into other jurisdictions in Europe and Asia. It has been launched with US$156 million in assets under management, which will be split equally between the ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
In big picture terms, not much happened last week. Yes Virginia, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept policy unchanged - as expected. The European Central Bank (ECB) guided forward but also stayed on the sidelines. US non-farm payrolls added another ...

Government takes aim at corporation tax

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... 19%, while in Hong Kong it is 16.5%. These countries also have the advantage of being geographically on the doorstep of Europe, Southeast Asia and China respectively - advantages which Australia does not have. However, developed nations that, like Australia ...

William Blair opens three funds to Australian investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
US fund manager William Blair has launched its first unit trusts to Australian institutional and wholesale investors. The Global Leaders Equity Fund, Emerging Markets Leaders Equity Fund and Dynamic Diversified Allocation Fund were selected from William ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Only 2 economists out of the 57 in Bloomberg's survey and just 2 - perhaps the same 2 - out of 72 economist polled by Reuters got it wrong. Think it's safe to say that these two economists (or four, in case they aren't the same two) expected the European ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... steep February fall, the US trade deficit widened more than expected and weekly initial unemployment claims rose. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets got a boost as the ECB pledged to further ease monetary conditions if necessary and hinted at quantitative ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... to persuade that the economy is on a good path, said Mace Blicksilver, director of Marblehead Asset Management. LONDON - Europe's main stock indices inched higher, a day before a key ECB monetary policy meeting, helped by data showing a pickup in US ...