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Rising markets boost Perpetual's bottom line

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... profits after tax of $90.5 million in the year to June, representing a 140 per cent increase on last year's result, and well above the company's previously issued guidance. The company's Private Wealth division contributed $32.6 million to the result ...

AQR wins $330m-plus insto mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... World ex Australian Index, while controlling its active risk relative to the benchmark. "We aim to achieve a few per cent above benchmark, and a 2 per cent tracking error above the benchmark," said Dunn. Meanwhile a big differentiator of the strategy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... Nikkei gained 122.14 points to 9,362.68, while the broader Topix rose 1.1 per cent to 843.96. Whether the Nikkei can stay above 9,000 is a big focus this week, market players say, though downside tries have been checked just under 9,100 several times ...

Something for everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... the 500K level. Nothing has changed. The monthly performance of the index of leading indicators shows the index playing above the zero line since early 2009. This is a significant improvement from 2007-2008 when it was bumping along the bottom on a monthly ...

Same song

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... ISM index was released because it dropped to 55.5 in July from 56.2 in the previous month. Never mind that it was still above the 50 expansion/contraction mark. Never mind that despite the July dip the index remains at levels that prevailed during the ...

Fastest growing planners book above 30pc growth

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
AFG Financial Planning, Senty Financial Services and Shadforth Financial are among the top 10 fastest growing financial adviser groups, all of which posted more than 30 per cent growth of adviser numbers each year over the past three years, Rainmaker ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... - they got their wish. Yields on US 10-year Treasuries dropped to as low as 2.74 per cent - just a few percentage point above the 2.08 per cent GFC low hit in mid-December 2008 - before closing at a 15-month low of 2.76 per cent. I can almost hear those ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... offshore markets during the overnight session, with Wall Street closing higher and the benchmark crude oil contract settling above $US81 a barrel. At 0715 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up four points ...

Good newer news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... previous month. This is also "better" than the expected stumble to 53.0. This also represents the seventh straight reading "above" the 50 expansion/contraction mark. The details of the report shows that except for imports, all components were in expansion ...

Mid-Morning Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... contract prices for precious metals such as gold and silver finished firmer, while the benchmark crude oil contract settled above $US81 a barrel.