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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat following the federal budget's release, despite a positive lead from Wall street where both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 reached fresh record highs. At 0915 AEST on Wednesday, the March share price index futures ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has opened lower as two major banks trade ex-dividend. The federal budget, unveiled on Tuesday night, was fairly positive for businesses and had little consequence for the share market, Commsec market analyst Juliana Roadley ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
Australian market looks set to open flat following the federal budget's release, despite a positive lead from Wall street where both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 reached fresh record highs. At 0645 AEST on Wednesday, the March share price index futures ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher ahead of the federal budget and after both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 reached fresh record highs. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 31 points at 5,468. Analysts ...

Beggars at war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... it's a move towards currency liberalisation it said -- when it doubled the yuan's trading band against the greenback last March - but currency depreciation by any other name is... However, both the yen and the yuan's still up -- 3.3% and 0.5%, respectively ...

Perpetual equity strategy awarded $200 million mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
The Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund awarded a $200 million mandate to Perpetual Investments' concentrated equity strategy. The strategy is managed by Paul Skamvougeras and it typically holds a small number of stocks with high ...

NAB wealth division reports flat earnings

LAURA MILLAN AND AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
The National Australia Bank (NAB) wealth division has reported flat earnings in the first results following the appointment of Cameron Clyne as chief executive. NAB Wealth cash earnings were $174 million for the half year ending on March 2013, the company ...

Insurers upping risk to combat low yields

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
Global insurers are looking to increase risk to combat low yields, according to the third annual Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) survey of the sector. Through independent third party research firm, KRC Research, GSAM surveyed 233 senior insurance ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
The Australian market is set to open lower after Wall Street dropped on concerns about the US tech sector and disappointing earnings from insurance giant AIG. At 0700 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 25 points ...

'Choice' dashboard, portfolio disclosure delayed to 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
The government has announced that the start date for the product dashboard for 'choice' super funds and introduction of the portfolio holdings disclosure regime will be delayed 12 months to July 2015. Rollout of the MySuper product dashboard is unaffected ...