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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher, after gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0704 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up 17 points points at 5,389. Wall Street stocks rose more than one per cent following ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
All is clear again on the Wall Street front. Central bank assurances have silenced the Johnny Littles wailing that the sky is falling. We could only imagine now what would have happened to equity markets and in turn to sentiment and then the economies ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open solidly higher after international markets returned to positive territory following heavy losses earlier in last week. At 0810 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 68 points at ...

Fraser and Hewson support ANU's right to divest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
A group of investors and prominent Australians, including former prime minister Malcolm Fraser and former Liberal leader John Hewson, have signed a statement supporting the Australian National University's right to divest from companies. The statement ...

LGS appoints new property portfolio manager

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
Local Government Super (LGS) has appointed Scott Armstrong as its new Property Portfolio Manager. Armstrong replaces Andrew Kim, who left the fund in September to become head of asset management at Rockwell Capital Partners. Armstrong will be responsible ...

MyState Financial becomes MyState Bank

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... but it also helps our customer acquisition and retention efforts in Tasmania." Through its retail brands, MyState Bank, The Rock and Tasmanian Perpetual Trustees, MyState Limited provides services to around 240,000 customers across Australia.

Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
Last month's United Nations Climate Summit saw a flurry of announcements from some of the world's major institutional investors, ranging from pledges to divest from fossil fuels, to calls on governments to introduce carbon pricing. But how serious are ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... investors." Did someone just squeak "macroprudential measures"? Yep. For what else could a central bank that's stuck between a rock and hard place to do? The RBA could not raise interest rates to let some steam off the boiling property market - it would ...

Cbus, NZ Super join Mercer climate change risk study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Cbus and the New Zealand Super Fund have joined a number of international investors backing Mercer's new study of the investment risks and returns under climate change scenarios. Mercer said the study would be "framed by several plausible climate scenarios ...

ASIC bans former Synchron adviser

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a former Synchron financial adviser from providing financial services for five years for failing to provide Statements of Advice (SOAs). Michael Richard Irwin, a Rockhampton-based ...