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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... gained about 60 per cent over the past six months under the pro-spending, pro-growth policies of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but tumbled 7.3 per cent on Thursday. The turbulence persisted for the next two sessions, with stocks driven down by ...

MoneySmart list of unlicensed companies approaches 700

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
The number of unlicensed companies listed on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)'s online financial literacy website, MoneySmart, has grown to 696. China Environment Group Limited (CEG), based in the British Virgin Islands, has ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013

Top-down approach wins in post-GFC world: Hexavest

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... preferring to take positions in under-represented markets. The strategies have profited heavily from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's pledge of monetary support to the economy, for instance. However, Brunelle says the team is now taking money off ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
It's the 1st of May for our brethrens in the US and Europe and right on cue...we got a sprinkling of nasty data sets that sent Wall Street down last night, reminding you, I and Irene that this maybe another May to sell and go away. Not that we did any ...

A lesson against austerity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... February 2004. Japan's unemployment dropped to a four-year low of 4.1% in March - again better than the 4.3% expected. The Abe government has pulled out all the stops and it appears to be working. And does it care that it's predicted 2013 budget deficit ...

Three arrows hitting the spot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... especially if arrows two and three also hit the bulleye. Arrow number two is "Abenomics" - or huge government spending. PM Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) plans to spend over US$2.4 trillion worth of public works stimulus (equivalent to about 40% ...

BOJ brings out big bazooka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
You call that QE? This is QE! Haruhiko Kuroda san's debut at the helm of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) shocked and awed financial markets for he delivered much more than even the most optimistic had been expecting. Yes Virginia, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has ...

BGL extends contract note service to managed funds

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
BGL Corporate Solutions has added Aberdeen and Schroders to its contract note service. The service, which launched in July 2012, automates the contract note collection process for purchases of managed funds, loading data and PDF contract notes straight ...

All eyes and ears on Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013