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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
Australian shares may open little changed after mixed leads from US markets. Commodity stocks may decline after the price of raw materials slipped overnight as the US dollar rose. At 0806 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price ...

Future Fund targets credit assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... more than $14 billion invested in debt securities, representing just over 24 per cent of its total portfolio as at September - up from 10 per cent a year ago.

BTIM wins $450m into 130/30 fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... - strategy has also appealed to investors. The total post-fee returns for the one year period was 23.56 per cent to September - a huge leap from the benchmark return's 8.34 per cent. "We've closed the fund [to institutional investors] in the space of ...

We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
"Ladies and gentlemen, you're not on Kansas anymore..." (James Cameron's movie, Avatar) But based on financial market's reaction to last Friday's US payrolls report, "we must be over the rainbow!" (Dorothy Gale in the Wizard of Oz). The sun shone, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overseas trading overnight, with Wall Street indices flat, precious metals mixed and oil flat. At 0805 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 34 points lower ...

State Street wins Morgan Stanley mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
State Street has been appointed by Morgan Stanley Investment Management to provide investment manager operations outsourcing services for $300 billion in assets. Building on its 40-year relationship, State Street will provide MSIM with global outsourcing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open stronger after a lift in European markets following the Dubai debt shock and after it became clear that Dubai's debt had had limited impact on local stocks. At 0704 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

TOWER wins key mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
TOWER Australia Group caps the year with major insurance wins, dividends up 15 per cent and new business up 54 per cent. The group also saw life inforce premium up 15 per cent to $784 million for the year to September thanks to its indiviudal life sales. ...

Small thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
Thanks again. Well ok, just a small thank you perhaps. I don't know about you Virginia, but usually during days like these when the planets align - good economic data releases - Wall Street ramps it up, not the paltry less than half a per cent hop it ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket has received positive leads into Thursday trading, as Wall Street posted gains on positive jobs and home sales data. At 0820 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 24 points higher ...