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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
The Australian market has flat to mixed negative leads from offshore trading overnight. The Dow ended higher, but Wall Streets's other key indices were lower, as were European and Asian markets in Wednesday trade. Precious metals were higher, but oil ...

Fin services execs rock 'n' roll for charity

The Financial Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) is aiming to hit the $500,000 fundraising mark at the 5th annual 'Who wants to be a RockStar' event this year. Next month, investment professionals across the industry will gather in Sydney to showcase ...

Move beyond benchmarks: GMO

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
GMO asset manager James Montier implored investors to move beyond policy benchmarks, and called for a risk rethink at a recent Investment Management Consultants Association conference. "The minute you give an investment manager a policy benchmark, all ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
Why bring a rocket launcher to a fight when a BB gun would suffice. This must be what European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet last night when he announced only "small" measures to battle ongoing financial market tension in the Eurozone. ...

US insider trading probe rocks hedge fund community

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
The US government is turning the screws on the investment community and it could affect firms with significant presences in Australia. Over the past 48 hours, as part of a wide-ranging insider trading probe, the FBI has raided a number of hedge funds ...

Head faked again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... billion in cash. American businesses are merging and acquiring. Liquidity is not the problem, interest rates are already at rock bottom. It's Obama's healthcare reforms, it's the threat of higher business and income taxes. It is this and it is that ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was lower at noon, dragged down by major banks on concerns about foreclosures for US financial companies. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 20.5 points, or 0.44 per cent, at 4,668.5 while the broader All ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... David Thodey to set to speak at an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Sydney. Minbos Resources Ltd and White Rock Minerals are due to list on the Australian Stock Exchange. On Thursday, the Australian stock market closed flat after an up-and-down ...

AMP appoints business partnership manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
AMP Financial Planning has appointed former Westpac lead state banker David Randall to the newly created role of business partnership manager. Randall will look after North Queensland, covering the area north from Rockhampton and west to Mt Isa. AMP ...

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
Move on people, there wasn't a lot of shaking that went on in Wall Street last night. The US equity market closed almost as flat as pancake after the US Commerce Department released the latest update on retail sales that - once again - could be interpreted ...