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Banks lead Australian market lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
The Australian share market is trading lower as investors continue to grapple with the Reserve Bank of Australia's position on interest rates. OptionsXpress market analyst Ben Le Brun said although commodity prices lifted overnight and boosted the resources ...

Henderson scores $2.6bn in mandates from Perennial buyout

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
Institutional mandates of a combined value of at least $2.6 billion will fall under Henderson Group's umbrella, following the acquisition of IOOF's Perennial Fixed Interest Partners and Perennial Growth. Both companies have combined assets under management ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
The Australian stock market looks set to open higher following gains in commodity prices overnight. At 0700 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 18 points at 5,641. In overnight trade, iron ore prices were up 1.9 per ...

Henderson acquires IOOF's Perennial

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
Henderson Group has acquired fund manager Perennial Fixed interest Partners and Perennial Growth from IOOF and has increased its stake in a third investment firm. UK-based Henderson has bought all the shares of Perennial Fixed interest Partners and ...

US data says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
"I should stress that the actual course of policy will be determined by incoming data and what that reveals about the economy." This was the last iteration of "data dependent" you, I and Irene heard from Fed Chair Janet Yellen when she spoke before ...

Risk inflows up despite tightening margins

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
Total risk market inflows are up 9.5% to $14.5 billion in the year to March 2015. Research by actuarial firm Plan for Life shows that individual risk lump sum premium inflows accounted for the majority of the total, with $6.4 billion coming in during ...

SMSFs need more investment diversity: FinaMetrica

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
Risk profiler FinaMetrica believes continued investment in Australian shares and cash could spell disaster for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) when the local market corrects. The call came on top of managed funds data recently released by ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
'Twas a winter of discontent for our Northern Hemisphere brethrens and us, Australians all, could experience a similar winter of our own. It barely made the headlines when the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued its provisional ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower, following falls in US stocks. The June share price index futures contract was down 17 points at 5,761. The main Wall Street stock indexes were down by about 0.6 per cent on Friday, after a key consumer ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
A new general manager for Godfrey Pembroke and a reshuffle at the top of First State Super led a raft of big appointment stories this week. NAB confirms new Godfrey Pembroke GM - Alan Logan, who has held executive positions at ANZ Advice & Distribution ...