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Hold fire: Emerging market debt set for correction

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
Investors considering allocating to emerging market debt should hold fire for the time being because the end of stimulus measures in the US will bring a more attractive risk-reward trade-off. That is the view of HSBC Global Asset Management head of ...

Challenger adds firepower to annuities business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
Challenger's $530 million capital raising program is likely to tighten the company's already firm grip on the lucrative annuities market. The figure will be raised from a combination of a $250 million institutional share placement and a $30 million ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Toto, I've a feeling we're back in Goldilocksville. Now that the headlines have grown tired of counting and recounting of lives lost - and collateral damages - the US/EU-Russia tits-for-tats, the "humanitarian" trucks toing and froing through the Ukrainian ...

Fear me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Geopolitical tensions ease, geopolitical tensions boil, geo-political tensions ease, geo-political tensions boil, geo-political... Financial markets continue to seesaw on this, just like they did with QE (I, II and III) on/QE (I, II and III) off and ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market has opened higher following positive leads from Wall Street and a raft of encouraging local earnings results, including telecommunications giant Telstra. Despite lucklustre retail sales data all the major US markets gained ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... Spooner said. "This has created some downward momentum in stocks." Closer to home, Mr Spooner said most investors were holding fire until the full swing of earning season added further market clarity. In resource stocks, BHP recovered earlier losses ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... Rhode Island," according to Bloomberg. According to reports fighting started after the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, ceased fire in 1994 with bouts of intermittent violence since then. So what? So what is it involves Putin and oil and energy and the ...

Arrows and more arrows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... steps to raise Japan's growth potential, they said, asking not to be named because the discussions are private." Time to fire arrow four... five... six...?

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite a muted showing on European markets and Wall Street being closed for Independence Day on Friday. At 0815 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was up 13 points at 5,495. ...

Inquiry has Macquarie Private Wealth in its sights

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... powers] properly. I think what's more important than giving them new powers is getting the right sort of people into ASIC with fire in their belly to do something about these problems," he said. "I found trying to get them [ASIC] to act on this matter ...