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Managed accounts set for an overhaul

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
For the first time in nine years, the country's financial services regulator is placing the managed accounts sector through a comprehensive review, addressing grey areas and fixing major drawbacks that have long derailed the sector's growth. Institutions ...

Conscious Capital launches Aussie equities fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
Conscious Capital has launched the Conscious Investor Fund, a highly concentrated portfolio aimed at wholesale investors. The fund will hold between only 10 and 30 stocks at any one time. The investment process centres on finding companies with proven ...

The happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
Gotta give it to Rachel Hunter, it might not have happened overnight - it took nearly five years - but it did happen. Last Friday, the Dow closed 232.54 points above and over its 9 October 2007 all-time peak. Not long now and we'll be hearing her ex ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
The Australian market is set to begin the week higher, following gains on US and European markets due to encouraging US jobs data. The US unemployment rate fell to 7.7 per cent, data released on Friday showed. At 0759 AEDT on Monday, the March share ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... performers, up 11 cents at $4.51, while Rio Tinto had gained $1.15 to $64.38 and BHP Billiton had added 19 cents to $36.01. The big four banks were slightly lower, with ANZ posting the largest fall, down 16 cents at $28.85. Telstra was also down, losing ...

More than five minutes this time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... more good days - or one very good day - and it'll be there. But while milestones make for good headlines, there's another big world equity market that's making even bigger strides. And its name is the Nikkei-225 index. Just have a look. Since the start ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... Kingsgate Consolidated, which was up 4.8 per cent, or 17 cents, at $3.71, while Newcrest had risen 30 cents to $21.93. The two big mining giants were also higher: BHP was up 13 cents at $35.95 and Rio had advanced 15 cents to $63.35. The Australian Bureau ...

Investors overlook US recovery

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... the certainty that now existed following the complex sequestration problem as clear signs of an improving economy. But the big surprise brimming him with confidence was the improvements shown in US housing. "Immigration and low interest rates means that ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... look at the US market and the companies that inhabit it, they like what they see". They see higher productivity, they see "big economic dividend as its massive reserves of shale gas," they see that America own technologies in high growth areas, they ...

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
Wall Street might is in the midst of jubilation, celebrating the Dow Jones Industrial Index's foray into a new all-time record high last night. Investors are counting their lucky stars - er, dollars - from the Dow's 117.7% surge from the bottom plumbed ...