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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
The Australian sharemarket has received a mildly positive lead from Wall Street but stronger metal prices have pushed up the Sydney Futures Exchange. At 0816 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 16 points higher at 3,345. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
The Australian share market was a sea of red at noon with the materials sector leading the losses after a negative US lead and reports that the economies of Australia's three most important export destinations are softening. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
Gung Hay Fat Choy! The English version of Happy New Year has not worked for financial markets so far. Perhaps the Chinese one will. The web says that in Cantonese these words also mean 'may prosperity be with you.' Indeed, may prosperity be with us ...

ASIC extends short selling ban till March

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
ASIC has extended the ban on covered short selling of financial stocks until 6 March, opposing the move of its UK counterpart FSA, which lifted its shorting ban last week. The regulator is concerned about lifting the ban after the Financial Services ...

Read between the headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... mining, retail and automotive sectors.' And so on. The All Ordinaries index closed more than 1 per cent higher on 19 January - the day the Access Report was splashed all over. And yesterday when the 'sky is falling on jobs' headlines made it onto computer ...

Insurance still tops: super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
Enhancing insurance products remains a priority for super funds and their providers in 2009 as government and industry funds re-jig their offerings for better member cover. Public sector super provider Super SA for instance has announced the roll-out ...

State Street scores $1bn mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
State Street Global Asset Managers wins a $1 billion global mandate from one of the world's top 20 sovereign funds, the $43 billion Alaskan Permanent Fund Corporation. The trustee board of the American super fund handed the mandate to State Street on ...

SERF to offer "cash" and "balanced" options

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Members of the $1.65 billion Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund will have access to two new investment options this year. Starting 1 January 2009, members of the industry fund will be able to invest in the fund's balanced and cash strategies, on ...

Principal Global Investors wins $160m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
Principal Global Investors Australia has been awarded a $160 million global equity mandate from Tyndall/Suncorp Investment Management. At the end of last year, Suncorp reshuffled its manager line up of its Investment Management World Equities Trust. ...

NAB Super hands investments to JANA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
The $3.1 billion corporate super fund NAB Group Super is starting 2009 with a fresh take on investments by completely outsourcing their investment management to JANA Investment Advisors. In a January newsletter to the corporate fund's members, NAB Super ...