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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... much', dump more of our stock and take it back home to protect their own markets." In the US overnight, stocks dropped for a third consecutive session after Federal Reserve officials cast doubt on the outlook for more interest rate cuts, with the Nasdaq ...

IPOs hit by market uncertainty

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... resource sector, and nine of the top 10 were based in Perth. However, NSW generated the greatest value of IPO activity for the third consecutive year while Victorian IPO activity bounced back strongly from the lows of 2006. In Queensland the number of ...

CAAM capitalises on crisis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... an outright position as we feel the banks are still trying to clean up balance sheets - it will take until the second or third quarter to pan out." Dunning-Gribble said the firm's weighting to event driven and long/short equities would be reduced this ...

International value funds back in vogue

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... major comeback - with several US fund managers eyeing the Australian market. US investment companies Tweedy, Browne, and Third Avenue Management announced the reawakening of their international value funds at the end of last year. Tweedy, Browne, cited ...

ASSET switches to Integrity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... Meanwhile, Paul Fiani, managing director and head of equities at Integrity, said the ASSET Super mandate was the firm's third largest existing mandate. Integrity's Australian Share Fund received a 'recommended' rating from research house, Lonsec in November ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... equities, New Corporation releases its first half results and Optus-owner, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, releases its third quarter results. The Australian share market closed higher on Monday after a positive lead from Wall Street and local speculation ...

MacarthurCook ventures to the long white cloud

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
Listed investment management company, MacarthurCook Limited, has scooped a third of the equity in New Zealand-based property fund manager, Kinloch Funds Management - but future ventures into the NZ market remains uncertain. The recent acquisition will ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... has begun with too much pessimism." In anycase, said Oliver, "January as the share market's barometer month has only a one-third success track record while years ending in eight [a number considered by the Chinese to be very lucky] have an 80 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... financial markets were closed yesterday for the Australia Day public holiday. On Friday, markets finished in the black for the third straight session.

One in three retirees don't review plan

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Almost one third of Australians in retirement have not re-assessed their retirement strategy, according to an AXA survey. The AXA survey conducted by Roy Morgan Research included 309 phone interviews to working Australians aged 25 and over and 319 phone ...