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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... 15 cents, or 6.33 per cent stronger at $2.52. "The materials sector is one of the drags on the market today, down about a third of one per cent," she said. "The information technology sector is also down by about one per cent, utilities are off by about ...

The Cambridge Strategy appoints currency expert

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... characteristics that can be exploited to capture alpha," said the group's chief executive Peter Henricks. Alexandra is the third Australian to join the group. Henricks and Director of Marketing Derek Doupe are both Australian born and educated.

Synchron attracts 50 young professionals

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... setting. But we make it clear that they are there to participate and not to discuss business," he said. This year marks the third anniversary of Synchron's sales conference.

Minnow mortgage manager wants to be big fish

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... growth by acquisition strategy, taking on six businesses during financial year 2008. Firstfolio grew its lending book by a third, to $8 billion for the period, with just over half organic and the remainder purchased, with revenue up 14 per cent. "Mortgage ...

SMSFs maintain investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
A new survey revealed two thirds of self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees are not changing their investment strategy despite almost half experiencing paper losses. The AMP Capital/Investment Trends 2008 SMSF Investor Report found 46 per cent of SMSFs ...

Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... than US$600 billion. This was almost immediately followed by news of Bank of America's US50 billion take-over of America's third-biggest investment bank -- Merrill Lynch -- and American International Group begging for A US$40 billion bridge loan from ...

ShareInvest gets Lonsec approval

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
... management accounts platform," said Stephen Karrasch, OneVue head of sales. The product requires a $25,000 minimum investment and third party financing from margin lenders or gearing is available. The report noted that since the merger of Direct Portfolio ...

BGI adds two more ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
... 50 largest and most liquid stocks in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. The iShares MSCI BRIC allocates roughly one third to Brazil, one quarter to both Russia and China and the remainder to India. Specific stocks include Russian gas giant, Gazprom ...

Getting the right mix

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... where liquidity provision and risk transfer come into play. "Those two are your sources of excess return," he said. The third ingredient in the mix is a self-test to assess the sustainability of that excess return. "Think of the structure of the market ...

Banks not ready for Web 2.0

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... social networking sites to draw customers, a new study found many are still afraid that linking up their online services to third-party content poses a serious security threat. Datamonitor's new report "Online Banking in the Age of Web 2.0" explored ...