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Swiss manager exceeds $1bn in Aus assets

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... funds, multi-managers and non-government organisations. "Following a bottom-up, long-term approach to investing in global stocks, means our portfolio owns interests in well-run businesses, with consistent and visible earnings growth. "This enables Vontobel ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was off 11.8 points, or 0.26 per cent, at 4,502.0 points. NEW YORK - US stocks on Monday followed European and Asian markets lower, giving up some of last week's solid gains ahead of the third quarter earnings ...

China trip provides first-hand insights

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... financial advisers explore China later this month. On the back of recent monetary stimulus, Wu said Chinese small and mid cap stocks have jumped in value, and there is a wave of new infrastructure investments commencing, such as roads, subways and ports. ...

Trading mistake forces Indian exchange crash

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... in placing orders, saw the exchange's Nifty index fall 920 points on Friday morning with shares in heavyweight financial stocks such as State Bank of India (SBI) and HDFC particularly hard hit, reported AAP. "The Nifty fall was on account of abnormal ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... for holidays for the whole of last week." Commodities prices were mostly down, including oil and gold. Among resources stocks, Rio Tinto was 18 cents weaker at $54.72, BHP Billiton shed three cents to $33.29 but Fortescue Metals was up two cents to $3.63. ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... market on Friday posted gains for a seventh consecutive day but unlike the rest of the week was led by cyclical mining stocks instead of high yielding banks. At the close of trade, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 42 points, or 0.94 per cent, at ...

Yield at any cost flawed: GSAM

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
Uncertainty has caused a preoccupation with yield and safe haven stocks, said Goldman Sachs Asset Management's head of Australian equities. Cost pressures, low productivity and the impact of a strong Australian dollar are causing uncertainty, despite ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... had forecast. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 80.75 points to close at 13,575.36. Aluminum giant Alcoa led the 30 stocks in the Dow with a 3.3 per cent surge. "It's not just the jobless claims numbers on their own," said Brian Gendreau, market ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
Australian stocks have opened firmer, with the financial sector leading the broader market higher. At 1032 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 7.3 points, or 0.16 per cent, at 4,445.9 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Vanguard makes index switch

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... styles. The CRSP capitalisation-weighted methodology employs the concept of "packeting" which cushions the movement of stocks between adjacent indices and allows holdings to be shared between two indices of the same family. Bowerman said that while there ...