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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... euros ($A2.64 billion) as demanded by the European Union and the IMF in exchange for a rescue package for the debt-ridden country. LONDON - Plans for a major shake-up of Britain's banks are to be revealed on Monday when a government-appointed commission ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... previously. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mostly higher as news that a German court had dismissed an attempt to block the country's payments to eurozone bailouts was tempered by profit-taking. Early gains were pared as dealers digested weak economic ...

Omega bond launch timed for asset allocation shift

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... Australian institutions are underweight fixed interest compared to their global peers and McCrum cited Japan as an example of a country where a significant shift from equities to bonds took place. While there is unlikely to be a reweighting of equal ...

Australian funds lead global asset growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... Australian assets include the strong performance of Australian equities relative to global equities combined with the home country bias of many Australian investors," said Martin Goss, senior investment consultant, Towers Watson, Australia. The rise ...

Trouble building in the housing market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... Glenn Stevens who said it's not interest rates making Australia's housing expensive but lack of supply. "How is it that a country of our size - we are not short of land - cannot add to the dwelling stock for the marginal new entrant more cheaply than ...

Invesco shifts Asian focus to consumer demand

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... well as the more obvious discretionary and consumer staples. "Another thing we've been conscious of is to ensure we have country diversification because the way the Chinese economy has developed is at a different point to where Korea is, for example ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... offshore markets. US stocks gained on Wednesday, boosted by better-than-expected manufacturing data manufacturing in the country's industrial heartland. "We're seeing a bit of consistency and stability emerging in offshore markets in comparison to recent ...

Northern Trust MD changes hands

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... will leave the local role for an international position and will be replaced internally by Rohan Singh. Cutts will be country head for the Channel Islands, based in Guernsey from November 1 this year and will report directly to Peter Cherecwich, head ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... 4,369.9 points. NEW YORK - US stocks gained on Wednesday, boosted by better-than-expected data on manufacturing in the country's industrial heartland, while still ending the month of August with losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 53.58 points ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... back blacksmithing that has escaped me. Then there are the political ironies. Like how does anyone possibly expect a tiny country of 22 million to have sufficient scale to develop a competitive manufacturing sector, which would even get worse if Australia ...