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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher today, taking a positive lead from the US overnight. At 0800 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was up 55 points to 5,608, on a volume of 5612 contracts. ...

New CEO, debut structure for MDS

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
... its business. Galtieri was formerly head of sales and education for market information specialist Bourse Data, and a key figure in educating Australians and New Zealanders on the subject of sensible trading and investing. Along with Galtieri's appointment ...

Super gender gap narrows

Men still have double the savings in super than women but a new report shows that women are fast catching up. The Association of Superannuation Funds in Australia (ASFA) used data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Survey of Income and Housing ...

Cutting our energy usage has long way to go

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
Despite all our apparent concern with conserving energy, Australians still have of long way to go to change and lower their energy and carbon footprints, reveals the 2008 ABS Yearbook. Solar energy is used by only 4 per cent of households as the primary ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
The Australian share market has received mixed leads from overseas. Stocks on Wall Street overnight rallied, then fell again on disappointing sales figures from Macy's Inc and a warning by a Federal Reserve official that inflation was still a key concern. ...

Australian private equity still going strong

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
Private equity investments in the Asia Pacific region remained relatively benign last year, but Australia is still going strong in the PE fundraising front. According to figures from Thomson Financial's Asia-Pacific private equity review, PE investments ...

Fortune favours the prudent

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
As investors are left picking up the pieces from the recent share market and credit crash, some industry figures believe the answer lies in investors' ability to find a balance between investing with a long-term perspective, and making decisions quickly. ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... this role, she asked. Craig James, chief equities economist at CommSec, said what really made him unhappy was trying to figure what is happening the in US. "We [in Australia] haven't had a recession in 16 years but the US have them too frequently." This ...

Australia number 1 in managed funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... funds compared with the average US citizen as of June last year. Figures from the survey also indicate that the growth figure for the past twelve months peaked at 32.4 per cent compared with the US's 8.5 per cent. Ross Nayler, Dealer Principal of AFG ...

Investors swarm to Asian hedge funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
The Asian hedge funds industry continues to expand exponentially as investors flock to pour more than $12.4 billion into the market last year. New data by global hedge fund research house, Hedge Fund Research (HFR), show assets in the Asian hedge industry ...