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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower despite strong gains on Wall Street following good jobs data. At 0754 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was down 13 points at 4,781. In economic news on Monday, the Australian ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
Who's scared of Fed taper? Not Wall Street...not anymore, gauging from it's performance last week. The Dow ended 1.6% higher, the S&P 500 closed 1.5% on the plus and the Nasdaq turned in a positive 2.2%. All in a week that, on balance, gave you, I and ...

Magellan boosts performance fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
Magellan Financial Group has seen its performance fees surge in the past six months with a performance fee revenue of $23.1 million in the past six months. The global equity manager was the highest performing stock on the ASX200 index during financial ...

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
What the...? Wall Streeters must have smoked or drank some heavy stuff ahead of America's 4th of July holiday celebrations. All three of America's benchmark equity indices - the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq - closed higher while most other equity ...

SelfWealth to distribute through BGL

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
SelfWealth has signed a wholesale distribution agreement with software supplier BGL Corporate Solutions. The SelfWealth solution will be integrated into BGL's Simple Fund 360, which will be released later this year. BGL and SelfWealth will integrate ...

Pioneer Capital awarded New Zealand Super mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has awarded a NZ$40 million mandate to Auckland-based Pioneer Capital for a new expansion capital fund. Pioneer Capital's second fund (PCPII) will invest in privately-owned, small to medium-sized New Zealand businesses ...

Super set for best year since 2007

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... delivered a whopping 15.7% for the year ended May, its highest rolling annual return in three years. With ASX falling just 2% in June - much less than expected - and the AUD falling 5%, which will boost the AUD value of super fund overseas assets, the ...

The others

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... area last night. It's the same in that other European country, the UK. The country's manufacturing PMI surged to 52.5 in June - the highest level since May 2011 - from an upwardly revised 51.5 in the previous month. Manufacturing is also on the mend ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
After sharp falls in its previous session, the Australian market looks set to open flat following gains on US and European bourses on encouraging manufacturing data out of Europe. At 0813 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract ...

Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... it's certainly hard to miss that despite the All Ord's two straight months of decline - down 4.9% in May and down 2.8% in June - Australian equities can still say sing 'happy EOFY'. For the index is up 15.5% at the end of the 2012/2013 FY. Not too far ...