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Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... markets hit new highs. The Dow and S&P 500 closed at fresh records overnight after the Republicans took power in both US houses of Congress and lifted hopes for pro-business policies. The strong US leads have lifted the local share market on Thursday ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... preliminary figures. NEW YORK - The Dow and S&P 500 have both closed at fresh records after the Republicans took power in both US Houses of Congress and lifted hopes for pro-business policies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 100.69 points (0.58 ...

PROFILE: Lonsec Fiscal Holdings joint chief executive Amanda Gillespie

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... Lonsec dealer group. For the last 14 years, Gillespie has seen Lonsec grow and become one of Australia's major research houses. Laura Millan reports. "It was a very different business then," Gillespie remembers. "There was a much smaller team and a much ...

Wilson HTM to split funds management, stockbroking arms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... chairman Steven Skala said: "we consider that firms of our group's scale and nimbleness are best left operated as independent houses, led by key executives." The move to separate Wilson HTM's stockbroking arm from the funds management business comes ...

Research houses give Medibank IPO approval

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
Research houses Morningstar and Lonsec have given their recommendation for investors to subscribe to the Medibank Private initial public offering. "This represents an opportunity to invest in Australia's largest private health insurer at a fair price ...

Bennelong appoints national account manager from Zurich

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... where he was strategic account and research manager, responsible for growing Zurich's strategic relationships with research houses and national dealer groups. Previously, he worked as research analyst and ETF strategist with Morningstar and an accountant ...

RBA should take action on negative gearing: AUI

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... represent two and a half times the level of the early 1990s. "Loans for investors used to be evenly split between existing houses and new construction, whereas now more than 90% is for existing homes," he said. "The economic benefit which negative gearing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... Composite Index advanced 46.53 (1.03 per cent) to 4,555.22. The Commerce Department reported that sales of new single-family houses surged 18 per cent in August to an annual rate of 504,000, their fastest pace in more than six years. The housing report ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... May) found Australian property prices the fifth most expensive among OECD countries and that, at the end of 2013, domestic houses were 28% overvalued when measured against income and 45% based on rents. That was at the end of 2013, prices have continued ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... Composite Index advanced 46.53 (1.03 per cent) to 4,555.22. The Commerce Department reported that sales of new single-family houses surged 18 per cent in August to an annual rate of 504,000, their fastest pace in more than six years. The housing report ...