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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... and Shanghai. Tokyo ended up 0.63 per cent, or 97.08 points, at 15,388.72, Seoul climbed 0.33 per cent, or 6.28 points, to close at 1,931.97, and Sydney was up 46.8 points, or 0.86 per cent, to end at 5,459.0. Shanghai dropped 0.51 per cent, or 11.84 ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
Australian shares look set to open lower after a flat performance on Wall Street and sharp falls on European markets following negative German business data. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 16 points ...

APRA releases draft RSE fraud management guide

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... employee code of conduct, fitness and propriety policy or whistleblowing policy," noted the consultation paper. Submissions close on 19 January 2015.

BTIM expands income and fixed income team

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
BTIM has expanded its income and fixed income team, appointing Oliver Ge to the position of portfolio analyst. Ge has been in the BTIM investment products team since September 2012 and prior to that he spent three years at Perpetual where he worked ...

Instos too slow to make investment decisions

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
Institutions are turning increasingly to alternative assets in a bid to boost returns but many are too slow in changing their asset allocation, according to the latest AMP Capital Institutional Investor Report. Almost half (46%) of the global survey ...

QEnd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... into account." JP Morgan's narrow effective exchange rate US dollar index was around 87.38 at the time. As at last Friday's close, it read 88.02. If the Fed goes ahead and makes the final cut this Wednesday, wouldn't that put more upward pressure on ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... others overshadowing a poor report from Amazon. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 127.51 points (0.76 per cent) to close Friday at 16,805.41. The broad-based S&P 500 advanced 13.76 (0.71 per cent) to 1,964.58, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite ...

FEATURE: Is it time to change the conversation about ETFs?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH, MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... exposure to the ASX 200 and the ASX 50. That's about as vanilla as you get in Australia. Fast forward 13 years, and there are close to 100 different exchange-traded products listed on the exchange. Investors now have a huge amount of choice. They can ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... benchmark FTSE 100 index climbed 0.30 per cent to end Thursday at 6,419.15 points. In Paris, the CAC 40 added 1.28 per cent to close at 4,157.68 points, while Frankfurt's DAX index gained 1.20 per cent to 9,047.31 points. "There's certainly been no shortage ...

Asia Pacific wealth growth outstrips world average

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
The wealth and population of high net worth individuals grew faster in the Asia Pacific region in 2013 than anywhere else in the world, according to the Asia-Pacific Wealth Report 2014 (APWR), published by Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management. The region's ...