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Standard Life Inv launches global equity strategy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015
Standard Life Investments has launched a Global Equity Unconstrained strategy. The fund is available to international investors, including Australian clients, through a SICAV structure. The SICAV fund (which is an acronym for sociA(C)tA(C) d'investissement ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following Wall Street's fall of more than one per cent amid an energy stock sell-off after OPEC cut its forecast on 2015 demand for oil. At 0911 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to follow US and international bourses downwards to open lower after disappointing Japanese and Chinese data. At 0836 AEST on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 35 points at 5,355. Chinese ...

Are we there now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
Yo momma! We're there now. The US Bureau of Labor Statictics' (BLS) latest update on America's employment situation - the momma of all eco stats - indicates that the economy is no longer mending, but that... it has mended. I refer not only to the much ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street's Dow and S&P 500 reached fresh record highs on good jobs figures. At 0748 AEST on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 27 points at 5,360. The Dow closed just ...

Don't underestimate LNG boom: BNP Paribas

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
Despite falling commodity prices and a stalling domestic economy, investors should not underestimate the potential of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fill the hole left by iron ore, coal, and other commodities, according to BNP Paribas head of fixed ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street made moderate gains as energy and commodity shares rallied while data boosted confidence in the economy. At 0844 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up ...

Cash rate more likely to fall than rise: PIMCO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is more likely to cut the cash rate than raise it in 2015, according to PIMCO head of portfolio management in Australia Robert Mead. While Mead said the most likely scenario in 2015 is that rates will stay where they ...

Big yawn on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The biggest developed economy in the world growing at a revised annualised rate of 3.9% (from an initial guess of 3.5%) in the third quarter and Wall Street gives it a big gaping yawn? What gives? The tale of the Wall Street tape showed the S&P 500 ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after US stocks barrelled to fresh records following China's surprise interest-rate cut. At 0751 AEST on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 52 points at 5,360. The People's Bank ...