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Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... additional construction would be the increased value of activity of around $0.5m in those businesses manufacturing the materials needed for the additional construction, such as concrete and steel frames. The businesses supplying and servicing the concrete ...

Latin America on institutional investment radar

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... biggest producer of copper in the region and the manager also like's the countries financial stocks and banks. Peru's materials, semi-agricultural and infrastructure companies are also of high interest. Both countries' main trading partner is China. ...

Beware the volatility trap: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... risk and it's particularly important in Australia. Although there are 11 sectors here, two of them obviously dominate: materials and financials. Those two in isolation are almost half of our index, but they're also two of the most inherently volatile ...

Expanding expansion in manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... types of machinery, equipment and chemicals, while large public infrastructure projects are fuelling demand for building materials, metals, transport equipment and others. Cyclone Debbie appears to have dampening activity in Queensland and Northern NSW ...

Sunrise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... details are even more encouraging as purchases increased strongly for all imported products: mineral fuels (36.3%); raw materials (15.3%); chemicals (13.8%); manufactured goods (12.9%); foodstuff (12.6%); electrical machinery (10.6%); transport equipment ...

Perennial portfolio manager leaves industry

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... Oesterheld joined Perennial in 2007, taking research responsibility for the Tony Oesterheld steels, utilities, building materials, miscellaneous industrials and diversified financials sectors. Before that, he was head of AMP's Value Plus team, and has ...

Super deadline driving adviser self-education

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... Since the legislative changes were announced in May 2016, MLC has recorded a 104% increase in visits to its educational materials, compared to the previous corresponding period. NAB executive general manager of wealth advice Greg Miller said advisers ...

Traded goods inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... from 3.8% in the previous month and 1.9% in December, as costs of consumer goods, foods and industrial supplies and materials increased. The price of imports increased at the fastest rate in five years despite the strength in US dollar (up 3.0% between ...

Australian hedge fund tops global ranking

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... three groups. Co-portfolio manager Craig Evans said: "From a positioning perspective, we are still comfortable that the materials sector is not a crowded trade." "While finding value is undoubtedly harder following the rally in 2016, we remain long the ...

IOOF introduces digital adviser education hub

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... to help them in developing the best possible strategy for their clients. 'The Knowledge Centre' houses introductory materials on investing, 'Build a plan' features a profiling tool to help clients determine their investment and risk profile, and build ...