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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... Retail Food Group are among the companies expected to post half year results while James Hardie is scheduled to release third quarter results. In Australia, the market on Thursday fell due to a worse-than-expected drop in business investment in the December ...

Dalton Nicol Reid wins $40m Intrust mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Intrust Super has awarded a $40m mandate to Australian equities fund manager, Dalton Nicol Reid. Intrust is a boutique $1.6 billion industry super fund based in Queensland for the hospitality sector with 130,000 members and 10,000 employers. The mandate ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... broad-based S&P 500 close less than a point away from its record closing high of 1,848.38. Local stocks were up by nearly a third of a per cent on open, but IG Markets strategist Stan Shamu said the gain was not as significant as anticipated. "It seems ...

Annual global dividends pass $1 trillion for first time

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... increased its payouts 49% over five years, and is by far the largest source of dividend income ($301.9bn), accounting for one third of the global pie. From an industry perspective, the fastest growth in payout has come from the technology sector, more ...

GSAM Australia MD retires

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... but said he would leave the firm in the hands of a strong leadership team across the fixed income, Australian equities and third party distribution departments. Gardner's career in the industry spanned 25 years, 17 of which were spent at GSAM. Prior ...

NAB reports $1.4 billion net profits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
National Australia Bank (NAB) has reported unaudited net profits of $1.4 billion and unaudited cash earnings of $1.55 billion for the December quarter. The latter figure represented a 7% rise from the corresponding period, and was 2% above the quarterly ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... 51% of executives reckon conditions will improve in the next six months and only 9% think they will deteriorate. Over a third of respondents plan to increase their capital investment in the coming year. A slim majority (52%) believe America will contribute ...

FSC acclaims free trade agreement with Korea

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... Australia to increase the cross-border flows between Australia and Korea." Brogden said that while South Korea is Australia's third largest export market, financial services has made up a small proportion of that to date. According to Brogden, initiatives ...

Praemium launches SMSF functionality

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... Separately Managed Account (SMA) platform were SMSF's. "SMSF administrators have historically had to export investment data unto third party SMSF compliance packages. Our new functionality will enable all SMSF compliance tasks to be undertaken within ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... said the monetary base would nearly double to 270 trillion yen ($2.9 trillion) by the end of 2014". Don't even need the third one it seemed - real GDP bounded at an annualised rate of 4.3% and 3.8% in the first and second quarters of last year, respectively. ...