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Barclays owns 5pc stake in Challenger

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
Barclays Global Investors has become a substantial shareholder of Challenger Financial Services with a 5.01 per cent stake in the James Packer-backed firm. In an ASX announcement yesterday, Challenger confirmed that BGI became a holder of the firm on ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from the key Wall Street and European indices overnight, and from another drop in the price of crude oil and base metal copper, although precious metals were higher. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney ...

Priced, but not for a V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
There's no point in us lurking around Wall Street this month. All the good news has been priced in. Perhaps. Perhaps not. This may well be - as I've discussed yesterday - the curse of September at work, where the line of least resistance is to give ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
The Australian share market may fall a little further on Tuesday after equity markets around the world slumped overnight on concerns about heavy losses in Chinese stocks on Monday. At 0718 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

ISN unveils new industry fund campaign

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Industry Super Network has embarked on its latest advertising blitz to promote industry super funds - this time with a bigger emphasis on ISF's new logo and a renewed message on the funds acting "only for the benefit of members". The key message to ...

Asset completes investment review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
The $1.1 billion Asset Super has recently completed the last stage of its investment restructuring process, including changes to the fund's cash, international and Australian equities, alternative and international fixed interest mandates. Recently ...

Zenith rates Fairview fund 'recommended'

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Zenith Investment Partners has given a 'recommended' rating to the Fairview Emerging Companies fund. Founded in August last year, Fairview Equity Partners is managed by three executive directors that also act as portfolio managers - Chris Adams, Leigh ...

Recovery is too fast, too furious: IML

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Anton Tagliaferro, investment director at Investors Mutual Limited (IML), believes the local sharemarket's recovery over the past five months has overshot the mark. In the fund manager's August newsletter, Tagliaferro said although local economy appears ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open slightly higher as Wall Street street edged higher on positive economic data to record an eighth consecutive gain. At 0730 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
The Australian share market is likely to open slightly lower as Wall Street ended flat amid weaker sentiment and profit-taking. At 0753 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 10 points lower at 4421. In economic ...