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Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... Crisis. The S&P 500 index closed at 1,482.42 points overnight - 82.73 points (or 5.29%) shy of the 1,565.15-point peak of 9 October 2007. The trigger? Good US data releases of course. Jobless claims dropped by 37K to 335K in the week ended 12 January ...

Business as usual at Mercer

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... response is to have genuine experts in those fields and that has been the theme with the people we have hired," he said. In October last year Mercer's head of alternatives Dragna Timotijevic was made redundant, along with consultant Marianne Feeley. ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... labour market (the unemployment rate declined to 7.8% in December from 8.3% at the start of last year and a high of 10% in October 2009). The same goes for China. More recent statistical and survey data - exports, manufacturing and non-manufacturing ...

Pension funds reckless on climate risk: Hewson

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... many that did hadn't changed investment decisions as a result," Hewson, also a former Reserve Bank economist said. In October this year the AOPD released a report authored by global law firm Baker & McKenzie which said this gap between understanding ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... release their latest survey of consumer sentiment. The Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes lending finance data for October, and Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is scheduled to speak at a Bank of Thailand function in Bangkok. In ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... the first 30 minutes of trade, the S&P/ASX200 traded above its calendar 2012 closing high of 4,571.1 points reached on October 19, but eased below that mark shortly after. Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said he expected the benchmark index to ...

Perpetual finds new CFO

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... job cuts and board pay cuts, and hopes to make the company's corporate structure simpler. Larkins joined Perpetual in October this year from Westpac Institutional Bank where she was chief financial officer and managing director. Before that she was Citigroup's ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... six points at 4,566. In local economic news, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will release housing finance data for October. The market closed at a seven-week high on Friday. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 42.5 points, or 0.94 per cent, to ...

Good US housing news gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... Department of Commerce housing figures by the Economist magazine show that while new housing starts year on year spiked in October to 3.8% up from 3.5% two months earlier, they are now at their highest rate in more than four years. Sales of existing ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... per cent. Still to come on Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics was due to publish international trade data for October at 1130 AEDT. The spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1,700 per fine ounce, up $US11.36 from Thursday's local close of $US1,688.64 ...