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Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... share market fell more than one per cent as investors waited on a vote by the Greek Parliament on measures to reduce that country's debt. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ended down 46.3 points, or 1.03 per cent, at 4,461.8, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Rainmaker launches Market Entry Report in Monaco

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
Rainmaker Information has launched its inaugural report on how offshore fund managers can tap the country's $1.7 trillion superannuation and wealth management market to a global audience in Monaco today. Rainmaker released the 2011 Fund Management in ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... Harvard University Professor Marin Feldstein writes in the Financial Times, "If Greece were the only insolvent European country, it would be best if its default occurred now...But Greece is not alone in its insolvency and a default by Athens could trigger ...

Tax agreement between Aus and Liechtenstein

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... 28th jurisdiction to sign a TIEA with Australia, preventing any offshore tax avoidance and evasion by Australians in its country as the agreement allows Australia and Liechtenstein to exchange taxpayer information. "Securing this latest agreement further ...

The sound of QE3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... way he's hinting at raising interest rates. Not when the institution he heads had just revised lower the outlook for his country's economic growth and predicted that there'd be more of his countrymen joining the jobless ranks. The Fed now thinks real ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... higher on Tuesday amid hopes that Greece's government would survive a confidence vote, a crucial first step in defusing the country's debt crisis and stabilizing Europe's finances. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 109.63 points, or 0.91 per cent ...

Franklin Templeton acquires Balanced Equity, plans new fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... Australia and globally so we will be launching a fund for retail and institutional investors in Australia," said Maria Wilton, country head and managing director, Franklin Templeton Investments Australia. Since its inception in 1988, Balanced Equity ...

Korea and Taiwan may move to developed status

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... "They would be likely to rise." "Stocks such as Samsung Electronics - it's huge, but it's listed in an emerging market country so developed market funds couldn't invest in Samsung." Series said the move would also increase the weighting of the Asia-Pacific ...

European authorities will blink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... from the EU and the IMF until July. They want to see whether Greece's private creditors would 'voluntarily' roll-over the country's debts and whether Prime Minister George Papandreou would be able to drive through another round of austerity measures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... the main Milan stock exchange index falling by more than two per cent after Moody's rating agency warned it may cut the country's credit rating in view of strains in the economy. TOKYO - Japanese stocks closed flat on Monday, with investor caution before ...