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Market wrap

With Christmas just five sleeps away, trade is expected to be fairly light in a quiet local session, and the Australian share market is likely to open a little bit weaker as a soft lead form the US and weaker base metals weigh on the domestic bourse. ...

Optimum and REST the top performing allocated pensions: SelectingSuper

Optimum's diversified growth allocated pension fund and REST's diversified balanced allocated pension fund have topped their respective tables with returns of 16.5 per cent and 14.7 per cent over three years. The survey is another research first for ...

Good year ahead despite lurking threats: ING

Strong equity performances and big growth returns in emerging markets in 2006 will bode well for the domestic markets, predicts ING. ING investment management's (INGIM) director of investment strategy, Eric Siegloff, says the outlook is good for equities ...

Spark electrifies market at $1.8b

Spark Infrastructure, one of the largest market floats this year, announced it has completed its institutional bookbuild, taking its total fully paid capital to just over $1.8 billion. The final fully paid price has been set at $1.80, which means that ...

Managers chase offshore bonds

Diversified income funds, which allows the fund manager to buy into overseas bonds, will become increasingly popular according to the latest research from van Eyk. Suzanne Tavill, van Eyk's head of research and ratings, said the high quality nature ...

Market wrap

The Australian share market is expected to open weaker as US markets set a bearish tone, one that will be exacerbated on the domestic bourse by further weakness in base metals overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index is ...

Overseas investing to reach 40 per cent: ING

The trend towards investing globally will only strengthen further with ING predicting that the amount invested overseas by superannuation and investment funds will increase from around 25 per cent to as much as 40 per cent by 2010. ING's CEO Grant Bailey ...

First Choice tops $20b

Lower fees, shorter transaction turnarounds and client reporting times all helped FirstChoice finish the year with a record $20 billion in funds under management. "Our success has been built on a simple premise - we offer competitive fees, a focused ...

Daily Economic Update

Australian consumer confidence fell by 2.7 per cent to 104.7 in November from 107.6 in the previous month. According to Westpac, concern over higher interest rates and the fall in house prices were chiefly responsible for the drop in consumer confidence. ...

Weekly Economic Roundup

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept domestic monetary policy unchanged following its Board meeting last week. The RBA last raised the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 5.5 per cent in March. Since then, indications that growth ...