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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... at noon, trading 4.01 per cent higher. Mining giant Rio Tinto gained $2.89 to $63.09 after it increased its stake in Canadian miner Ivanhoe Mines to 49 per cent while fellow miner BHP Billiton rose $1.10, or 3.2 per cent at $35.05. CityIndex chief market ...

Planning industry unified on commissions: AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... and services and a member on the FPA standards board, said that while the Australian industry can always learn from the Canadian and US planning industries, our local market has its own strengths. "I look in Australia and there are planners and planning ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... Australian dollar) is clearly under pressure with how things closed in New York on Friday," he said. "It is a US and Canadian holiday to start off the week, but I think that the risk-off scenario is going to see the Aussie dollar weaken further." Mr ...

Astarra director convicted by NSW Supreme Court

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... "Shawny Cash" Richard, the former director of Astarra Asset Management. Justice Peter Garling convicted the 36-year-old Canadian-born investment manager of two counts of dishonest conduct over the Trio Capital fraud. Investors lost $180 million from ...

ASIC cautions industry after US broker tweeted into suspension

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... chairman and chief executive. This at a time when global social media networking is moving forward with a survey of the Canadian financial services market finding a significant majority of online investors use social media to make their online investment ...

Grant Samuel signs US fixed income partner

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... said the capacity to deliver emerging market debt was a key component of the deal. McKinnon noted that while a lot of Canadian and European pension funds are invested in emerging market debt, it remains a relatively undeveloped part of the global fixed ...

Diamonds are a fund's best friends

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... launching the Diamond Asset Fund I of up to US$250 million for institutional investors. The firm has signed a deal with Canadian diamond miner and retailer, Harry Winston Diamond Corp to supply the polished gems. Harry Winston, which has a 40 per cent ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... these markets outperform the developed markets," he said. Eisinger said his fund's biggest holding was Ivanhoe Mines, a Canadian explorer that has one of the world's largest copper and gold porphyry deposits in Mongolia. Despite his bearish outlook for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... news on Monday, the London Stock Exchange said it remained committed to a merger with its Toronto counterpart, after a Canadian consortium launched an informal takeover bid that could derail the deal. Elsewhere, German luxury carmaker Daimler and British ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... price rocket at first before settling down to a a three per cent rise after it announced a landmark merger deal with its Canadian counterpart. Meanwhile trading in shares of Deutsche Boerse, which runs the Frankfurt stock exchange, was suspended on Wednesday ...