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Macq gives update on US arm

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
Homegrown fund manager, Macquarie Funds Group, now among the largest Australian-based asset managers after it bought US-based fund manager Delaware in January last year, gives an optimistic update on its overall wealth management business. According ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... Pessimists would point you to the number on the report that shows that US employers added only 36,000 warm bodies in January -less than a quarter of the 145,000 heads that financial markets expected to be signed in on their payrolls. Private sector employment ...

USA is going A-OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... services sector also continuing to grow. The ISM non-manufacturing index increased to a better-than-expected 59.4 in January - the highest in six years. And just as the reading for the manufacturing, the service sector employment component has also risen. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
The Australian stock market was higher at noon on materials, while insurers made gains following the smaller than expected impact of Cyclone Yasi. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 9.7 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 4,806.2, while the ...

ASIC strikes $67.45m in Westpoint settlement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has reached a settlement agreement, handing investors in the Westpoint Group an additional $67.45 million in compensation. The latest stage of the litigation process was carried out on behalf ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
"It's getting better all the time Better Better Better It's getting better all the time Better Better Better. Getting so much better all the time." - Beatles Less than a week ago, I wrote on this space, "it's just a matter of a few sleeps till we get ...

Speck of sand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
Trouble on the Nile? What trouble? Oh yes, all eyes are still glued to the evolving story about the political unrest. But after Friday night's knee jerk reaction on Wall Street, the temporary fear over the unfolding Egyptian saga proved just that... ...

AMP Capital appoints Alliston and Lau

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
AMP Capital has expanded its Multi Asset Group capability, appointing former Apostle AM director Debbie Alliston as head of portfolio management and former Goldman Sachs AM product manager Silvana Lau as senior investment manager client solutions. Former ...

QIC donates $100k to flood appeal

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
Queensland-based fund manager QIC has donated $100,000 to the Premier's Flood Relief Fund and is offering a dollar-for-dollar matching staff donations to the fund. QIC lost access to its Brisbane CBD Head Office for almost two weeks due to floods but ...

Haste makes waste

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
I'm sure I've seen this movie before. Most of you have too. It was shown on monitors near you at about this time last year. Yes, my dear Virginia, the film, "The Fed and other developed country central banks will start withdrawing policy - possibly ...