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William Blair opens three funds to Australian investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... accessible via the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) - something that, arguably, Australians need even more than United States and European investors, because of the comparatively small size of the Australian market. "Investors in the developed world ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after markets in the United States continued their rise overnight. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the local market's opening trade was looking pretty good after encouraging US jobs and ...

HFA Holdings chairman steps down

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... prospects of the business as it stands today, and in particular the foundation it has with its operations in the United States and I consider that this is an appropriate time for me to step back," he said.

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher following a solid lead from markets in the United States and easing concern over Ukraine. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the Australian bourse had opened in a veritable sea of green. ...

Australia has softer approach to corporate wrongdoing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... broadly consistent with the international average, the country has significantly lower prison terms and fines than the United States. In other countries, there is a broader range of civil and administrative penalties. At the same time, those are higher ...

Market Vectors ETF gets Lonsec rating

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... and intermediaries at Market Vectors Australia said. "Equal weight investing is well established in Europe and the United States, where it is used to build a diversified core portfolio.A The methodology is well suited to the Australian market, which ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
The share market is trading lower after the United States Federal Reserve flagged an interest rate rise in 2015. A remark from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen indicated the rough timeframe for an interest rate hike, which was sooner than investors ...

APRA gets Basel III tick

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... standards. Australia's is the eighth regulatory framework to be graded by the Basel Committee. Others include the United States, the European Union, Japan and Brazil. The Basel Committee said: "Australia's implementation of the Basel capital framework ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... neither accounts nor property abroad do? Have you not thought about it? I think the decree of the President of the United States was written by some joker." However, imposing deeper sanctions - economic ones - could blow up in their own faces. So what ...

Pickle wrapped in a bind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... of voters voted to secede from Ukraine and return to Russia with love. Ukraine's new government, Europe and the United States were up in arms (errr, so to speak), decrying the referendum as illegal. Washington issued a statement declaring that the international ...