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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher, continuing that gains that reached a four-and-a-half year high and as the Dow Jones extends its record-breaking run. At 0800 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up six points ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
The Australian market was hovering around four-and-a-half year highs at open after Wall Street soared to a record high. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 hit 5,119.8 shortly after open, before falling slightly. It is the highest level the market has reached ...

Local appetite for hedge funds outstrips other markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
Australian institutional investors are showing more appetite for hedge funds than their peers in the US, Europe and Japan, according to a leading hedge fund manager. Joe Scoby, chief investment officer and chief executive of PEAK6 Advisors, a Chicago-based ...

Strong result for AIA

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
Life insurer AIA Group Limited has delivered record value of new business of $1.19 billion for the year ended 30 November 2012, across the 16 markets it operates in Asia-Pacific. "AIA Australia continues to support AIA Group's strong results and record ...

Don't meddle with super industry bodies warn Govt

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
Several industry bodies have joined the ever growing chorus of sentiment against a federal government making any changes to superannuation likely to negatively impact investors either saving for or currently in retirement. The Self Managed Superannuation ...

All Ords at 5000 overvalued but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
"Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun Roll out the barrel, we've got the blues on the run..." -- Beer Barrel Polka by Vejvoda and IngriA! Roll out the barrel cause the All Ords' on a run. Roll out the barrel, it's broken five thousand! It's ...

Big deal day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Ho-hum. Wake me up when it's over. "Twas another ordinary day in the market's today folks. The only news being the long wait for US President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. According to Bloomberg, "He will make proposals for spending on ...

Interest rate cuts drive SMSFs to FI, property

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Interest rate cuts in December 2012 drove Self Managed Super Funds (SMSF) trustees from cash holdings to fixed interest and direct property investments, Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey found. Cash holdings fell 1.9% to 24.5% in the December ...

Policy team reshuffles at ASFA

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has restructured its policy team after the departure last year of policy manager Margaret Stewart. Last week the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said that after Stewart left ...

Serpentine fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
Almost two months in and thus far you, I and Irene have had a happy new year... will we also have a "gung hei fat choi"? Yes Virginia, those who go by the lunar calendar has gone around yesterday, 10 February, wishing everyone "gung hei fat choi' as ...