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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... sales results and BHP Billiton issues its September Quarter Production and Exploration & Development Report. Bradken Ltd, Country Road Ltd and The Reject Shop Ltd hold annual general meetings. The public examination continues into the collapse of Octaviar ...

Pengana hires resources guru

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... a decade long spell last month. Prior to that, West spent 22 years in the resources industry, including stints at the country's two largest mining companies, BHP Biliton and Rio Tinto. West will link up with the fund's Melbourne-based managers Ric Ronge ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... scared the beejesus out of every bond market in the world -- even relatively fast-growing, relatively low debt/deficit country Australia. Funny because what's happening now has all happened before... during the Great Depression. Politics got in the way. ...

QIC offers instos inflation protection

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
One of the country's largest fixed interest managers raises the ante in the race to provide investors with income protection against rising inflation. After a brief period of incubation, Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has opened the QIC GFI ...

Van Eyk completes China review

NEWS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... in China is much lower than in the developed world. Indeed, it is a Chinese equities fund manager's major concern. The country is at a developing stage and has looser regulations with regards to company reporting than in the developed nations, and it ...

Borysiewicz exits, Amundi names new chief

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
Amundi Asset Management has appointed Schroder Investment Management head of sales, Brian Scott, as the new country head and chief executive, following the departure of former CEO, Richard Borysiewicz. Scott spent three and a half years as head of sales ...

No housing bubble: Fidelity

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... has been overstated. "The data that these doomsayers use is flawed. They are comparing capital city house prices with country income. They are using breadwinner income rather than household income, and they are only looking at salaried income as opposed ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... straight quarter of year-over-year earnings increases, according to Thomson Reuters data." And then there's China. The country's foreign exchange reserves soared by a record US$194 billion to US$2.65 trillion as at the end of last month. That's mo' money ...

Rise of the new rich

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... live in Asia. For example, China's wealth is 35 per cent greater than that of France (US$12.1 trillion), the wealthiest country in Europe. Meanwhile, Indonesia's average wealth per adult grew the fastest in the region, rising five-fold to US$1.8 trillion ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... the currency sheriff. And what's the new currency cop supposed to do? It will prepare a report to show the impact of one country's policies on the economies of its neighbours. No doubt, there'll be more money spent to come up with complex models to show ...