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Greece is the word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
Greece is the word Greece and the US labour market dominated the financial headlines last week. Greece and its efforts to contain its widening budget deficit provides a forward view of how things could escalate from bad to worse and when debts go wild. ...

Hartsuyker takes aim at govt reviews

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
Luke Hartsuyker, shadow minister for financial services, superannuation, corporate law and consumer affairs, said the Government has failed to encourage Australians to invest in superannuation by creating an uncertain regulatory environment. Speaking ...

VFMC underperforms across four asset classes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
VFMC has underperformed its benchmarks across Australian equities, private equity, property and inflation-linked bonds over 12-month period to December last year amid a series of reshuffles in senior management and tough investment markets. The investment ...

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
Gold's spectacular run in 2009 appears to have run out of puff this early in the New Year. The yellow metal produced a hefty 27.1 per cent return last year as prices jumped from US$862.20 per ounce in January 2009 to a high of US$1,212.00 an ounce on ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
The Australian market is likely to open weaker after US stocks retreated following lower-than-expected growth in the United States' service businesses. Major commodities also fell overnight. At 0821 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share ...

Artemis to switch from Fortis to AMG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) has sealed a deal to buy Artemis Investment Management, one of the leading fund managers in the UK, from its previous owner, Fortis Bank. Under the deal, AMG will own a majority stake in the firm but Artemis' management ...

NZ Super appoints Elementum Advisors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
The Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation have appointed Elementum Advisors to manage a $140 million portfolio of catastrophe-linked securities. The initial size of the mandate will be $140 million million with potential to increase to $282 million. ...

RBA mixes its game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
"It was an art and act I came to perfect. It was part of my armoury. I felt if my opponent didn't know what I was thinking then I was invincible." Bjorn Borg The Australian Open might be finished but yesterday we had the RBA mixing its play to win game ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Running of the bulls. Peppered with undeniably wonderful set of numbers, Wall Street couldn't have it any other way overnight. The Dow closed 1.2 per cent higher - the biggest daily advance in about a month - the S&P 500 surged 1.4 per cent and the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Australian stocks are expected to open higher after Wall Street rebounded from recent losses on strong results from oil giant ExxonMobil and positive data releases. At 0820 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was ...