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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... speculative bubbles in areas like real estate. It would be the latest effort by China to restrict runaway lending and cool that country's overheated growth. The Dow declined by 122.28 points, or 1.14 per cent, to 10,603.15, a day after rising 116 points ...

AMP broadens risk profile

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
In a sign of the times, one of the country's largest planning groups has expanded its risk profiling tool to accommodate seven types of risk profiles instead of five - adding "short duration" and "cautious" to the mix. Previously, AMP's risk profile ...

Johnson Report maps out new world order

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... financial services sector accounts for 7.5 per cent of Australia's GDP and employs 390,000 people, a huge portion of the country's working population.

Room for Russia in BRIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... available in Australia has a 19 per cent allocation to emerging markets, some 6 per cent more than its benchmark (the MSCI-All Country index). Murray Brewer, the Australia head, said their allocation to emerging markets aided their portfolio returns. ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... Statistics (ABS) released another "beautiful set of numbers." Yes, I refer to the December Labour Force Report that showed the country's unemployment rate inching down to 5.5 per cent from 5.6 per cent in the previous month. And no, this wasn't caused ...

J.P. Morgan beefs up treasury and securities services

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... promotion of its current Australia head of the securities services business, Jane Perry as Treasury & Securities Services Country Head for Australia and New Zealand - among other senior appointments. Perry was previously the CEO of the J.P. Morgan Worldwide ...

The I word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... cent last night. Inflation cast its shadow on the Street after the US Labor Department released figures showing that the country's headline producer price index jumped by 1.8 per cent in November, with the core measure rising by 0.5 per cent. Expectations ...

ING IM appoints new chief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... with ING Investment Management Brussels. He then moved to India as managing director of ING Vysya Financial Services and country head for Private Banking in India, before moving to Taiwan. He holds a Masters in Economics from the University of Gent ...

Standard Life selects RBC Dexia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... global custody, investment administration and shareholder services to the firm's Australian-domiciled fund. James Cooper, country head for Australia at Standard Life Investments, said RBC Dexia was selected because the team understood its business and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... cent, to 3,798.38. TOKYO - Japanese share prices tumbled as investors worried about the impact of a strong yen on the country's export-dependent economy. A positive lead from Wall Street failed to provide a boost to the Tokyo market, where there were ...