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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
The Australian has received generally positive leads from overnight trading offshore, with Wall Street up marginally, precious metals higher, and European markets flat to higher. Oil and base metal copper were lower, however. On the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Aus equities FMs target solid result stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Australian equity fund managers are still finding well-valued stocks despite the local market moving sideways in the past six months. The S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index returned more than 35 per cent in the year to January. But the same index traded ...

Enviable problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
It was about this time last year that a few of my closest friends were given the boot by their employers and told their services were no longer needed. It is not so much that they lost their jobs that worried them but the negative prospects that awaited ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Wall Street securities have provided a positive lead to the Australian stock market on Friday, although key commodities all were lower in overnight trade. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0740 AEST, the June share price index contract was 27 points ...

PIS to step up competition in cash savings

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
Professional Investment Services is staging an ambitious plan to become an all-round financial services outfit, providing products and services that have long been the domain of the big banks, including the all-important area of bank deposit products. ...

Orion tightens compliance after rogue trader caught

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
Orion Asset Management has strengthened its vigilance on compliance standards since one of its equities dealers, 24-year-old John Hartman, was caught and pleaded guilty to 25 charges of insider trading. Hartman was employed by Orion from March 2006 ...

Malware attacks Chinese walls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Local fund managers looking to this year's Shanghai World Expo as a platform to offer their fund products are vulnerable to email-related security breaches after the discovery of a malware that targets the mailing list of the Expo's would-be attendees. ...

Challenger property co-portfolio fund manager departs

S&P RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
John White, co-portfolio manager of Challenger Property Securities Funds, has left the firm for undisclosed reasons. John Longo, his co-portfolio manager for eight years, will take over as portfolio manager. "It's unlikely that John White will be replaced. ...

Lazard Japan appoints former JPMorgan head

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
Lazard Japan Asset Management beefs up its Japanese operations with the appointment of Keiichi Miki, former head of JP Morgan Asset Management (Japan) for eight years, as its new head. As representative director, Miki takes on the chief executive role ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
The Australian stock market has received mostly positive leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street finishing higher and precious and base metals prices firmer, although oil prices were weaker. At 0735 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June ...