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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... its purchasing managers' index (PMI) of manufacturing activity for September came in at 50.5, up from 50.2 in August. Anything above 50 indicates growth and anything below means a contraction. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index rose 5.151 points, or 0.1 per ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... disappointed; Apple's shares ended down 0.4 per cent. "Investors have come to expect game-changers from this company and anything short of that is a disappointment," he said. LONDON - European stock markets have slumped as investors took profits while ...

Brumbie: Misguided attacks on SMSFs, enough already

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... However, as time has gone on, I've realised the term "hedge fund" has morphed and twisted so much that it can mean almost anything to anybody, which means it actually means nothing. Instead, what we should fear is a force much more sinister: self-managed ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... into outright deflation, financial markets are just as happy that the European Central Bank (ECB) is doing something, anything, to counteract/reverse this state of affairs. Yes Virginia, it wasn't the ECB doing a Fed thing - announce quantitative easing ...

Who will buy NAB Asset Servicing?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... they were interested. NAB, meanwhile, said it "does not comment on market speculation." Given that no one wants to say anything, what do we know about the possible contenders? State Street The Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) reports ...

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda's weekend statement that, "We will continue our current monetary policy... But if there is anything which could derail our course toward 2% inflation target, we would not hesitate to change or adjust our monetary policy." ...

PROFILE: ME Bank CEO Jamie McPhee

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... team, as he was diverted by a budding career at London-based merchant bank, Wallace Smith Trust Company. "I didn't know anything about banking," he says, "but the day I walked into this merchant bank I just loved it. And I've stayed in finance ever since." ...

Licensees must be more open to social media: AFA

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... summit. "Official guidance has slowed the growth of social media in the US and some large dealer groups find it hard to do anything on social media," he said. "We have around 315,000 advisers in the US, but there has been very slow adoption." However ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... interested any of the superannuation turf warriors in their sacred duty to prevent riff raff using their balances for anything else although it's always fun to watch their predictable indignation especially when it ignores their own contradictions. Like ...