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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... Hang Seng Index closed down 63.12 points at 19,842.2. SHANGHAI - Shanghai closed down 0.80 per cent amid concerns the country's phenomenal growth is slowing and liquidity pressure caused by Agricultural Bank of China's blockbuster initial public offering ...

Review reinforces power of fund scale

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... increased their collective super savings to $6.1 trillion, according to the Cooper report. Last year, the biggest fund in the country had $41.5 billion and the average large APRA fund size is $1.5 billion. But in 25 years time, the biggest fund would ...

Down on old news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... and snuffed out an earlier rally." Moody's indicated that it could downgrade Spain's top credit rating because of the country's uncertainty over its growth prospects and the achievement of its target of trimming the budget deficit to 6 per cent of GDP ...

School staff take up super advice: NGS Super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... schools". According to its website, it is the largest industry super fund for independent education and aligned sectors in the country with 82,000 members, 3,000 participating employers and $3.1 billion in funds under administration.

Waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... government until Friday to settle the issue or else - hostilities resume. And after these? Greece would be the word again. The country is returning to financial markets in July seeking to raise around 4.56 billion euros to refinance the short-term borrowings ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... Commerce Department revised lower its estimate of first-quarter growth in gross domestic product, a broad measure of the country's output, to 2.7 per cent. The third and final estimate was the second downward revision of GDP growth for the January-March ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... was $HK47.79 billion (c. $A7.04 billion). SHANGHAI - Shanghai lost 0.12 per cent due to concerns about exports after the country dropped tax rebates on shipments of some steel and metal products, dealers said. The Shanghai Composite Index, which covers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... it surged 2.4 per cent to a one-month high on hopes that China's increased flexibility on the yuan would increase the country's buying power. In another weak technical sign, the Nikkei's MACD, a longer-term momentum indicator, was flattening out after ...

To spend or not to spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... tax increases on top of the spending cuts and tax increases already announced by the previous government to tackle the country's yawning budget deficit. I may be crucified for saying this but... wait for it... I agree with America. There I said it! The ...

World-class Aussie funds reach Europe through UCITS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... laws governing investments overseas. Another alternative would have been to use a different fund structure that suits one country but not another, meaning the fund would have had to keep setting new structures. The original set of directives goes back ...