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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... increased full year net profit by 19.41 per cent. At 1200 AEST, uranium miner Paladin Energy was the worst performer in the top 100, down 24 cents, or 9.8 per cent, at $2.21. National turnover at 1200 AEST was 2.5 billion shares, worth $4.3 billion ...

LICs benefit from FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... said. GMI trades about 75 metals and mining stocks on 10 different exchanges and charges fees of about 1.25% per year. Its top 20 holdings include Brazilian iron ore giant Vale, gold play Anglo American, copper-gold giant Freeport McMoRan that mines ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... and 359 were steady. At 1212 AEST, drilling products and services provider, Boart Longyear, was the best performer in the top 100, up 13 cents, or 3.32 per cent, at $4.05.

Super funds hit back at anti-carbon tax groups

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... shareholders had been particularly vocal, he said they have asked IGCC to raise their concerns as IGCC members invest in all of the top 300 listed companies on the ASX and directly in hundreds of other Australian companies. The television ads state ...

School's in for hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
The University of Pennsylvania and New York University have been ranked the top universities for breaking into the US hedge funds industry. Global hedge funds are estimated to now be running $2 trillion worldwide. In Australia they run approximately ...

Ready to turn on the tap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... case for QE3 becomes. Here's Bloomberg's take: "Stocks rebounded after the Wall Street Journal reported that three former top officials at the Fed said the central bank should consider a new round of securities purchases to bolster economic growth." ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... Gold miner Newcrest was up 56 cents, or 1.4 per cent, at $40.59. At 1030 AEST, BlueScope Steel was the worst performer in the top 100, shedding 6.5 cents, around six per cent, to $1.045. National turnover at 1045 AEST was 674.3 million shares, worth ...

Mercer chief scores plum promotion

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... Mercer's investment consulting business where she managed day-to-day operations, budgets and business strategy before landing the top job. Williams will continue to be based in London for her new role. Brian Long, Mercer's head of wealth management consulting ...

SMSFs stockpiling cash, weighted to banks

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... is happening in the equity space and the property space as both have had significant hits," he said. The report found the top ten most commonly held shares by dollars invested were BHP Billiton followed by the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ, National ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... that the economy was getting through just a soft spot, compounding the damage. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index of top shares closed down 0.70 per cent at 5,774.43 points but in Frankfurt, the DAX fell 2.86 per cent to 6,953.98 points and in Paris ...