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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... Bank releases its monthly business survey and the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey is also due out. In equities news, Energy Resources of Australia hold its annual general meeting. In Australia on Monday, disappointing Chinese trade numbers ...

Europe and Japan becoming preferred equity markets

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... Investments have updated their global outlooks for 2015, highlighting a growing preference for Japanese and European equities. These markets have benefited from recovery after weak growth in 2014; profits growth will also likely be supported by yen and ...

Van Eck ETFs added to CFS FirstWrap

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... State's FirstWrap platform. Established in 2006, Market Vectors has ETFs that cover multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and currency markets. The four ETFs now available on FirstWrap are the Market Vectors Australian Equal Weight ...

Contango appoints analysts to capitalise on growing markets

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... Contango Asset Management has appointed two senior investment analysts to capitalise on small and microcap Australian equities as well as "the rapidly expanding retirement incomes space." An expansion at Cotango was indicated earlier this year and the ...

Global property securities growth to continue

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... global property securities funds, demonstrated that the sector delivered total returns of 28.4% (outperforming global equities by 15.8%) throughout 2014. It also suggested that improving economic conditions, increasing rental rates and occupancy levels ...

Invesco launches multi-asset targeted return fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... (cash +5%) over a rolling, three-year period. Crucially, it also has a volatility target of less than half that of global equities over the same rolling, three-year period. The Fund, which has gained traction with advisers in its home UK market, is available ...

Emerging markets a no go in 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... from emerging markets and retreated to safe havens in developed markets. In the past year there were heavy losses for equities in key regions such as Brazil and Russia according to Legg Mason. The company said the MSCI EM Index fell almost 20% in the ...

Q1 earnings expectations get rub down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... with a historic long-term average of 16.6. These valuations become particularly crucial for the forward direction of US equities, especially in light of the recent downgrades to earnings expectations. S&P Capital IQ's Mike Thompson, for instance, expects ...

Hyperion closes funds to new investors

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... investment out-performance over the long-term has driven strong inflows to Hyperion's funds, with the amount of Australian equities under management recently reaching $5.5 billion. "This will be our 20th year of operation and over that time we have produced ...

Super breaks $2trn on way to $9trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... Authority (APRA) confirmed superannuation assets had reached $1.934 trillion at end December and that in the following months equities in Australia and overseas have continued to bounce back, it's clear that we crossed the $2 trillion threshold in mid-January. ...