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Barrack St raises $16 million through IPO

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
Manny Pohl's Barrack Street Investments is scheduled to list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on August 14 after it raised $16 million through its initial public offer (IPO). The small and mid-cap listed investment company will be managed ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... US bond market says so. Yields on benchmark 10-year US Treasuries went from 2.49% the day before to all of 2.483% at the close of today's NY trade. The same way the US bond market reacted (or in this case, didn't react much) to that which was listed ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... rescue in Portugal. Frankfurt's main DAX index rose 0.39 per cent to end the day at 9,189.74 points, compared with Monday's close. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index inched up 0.07 per cent to 6,682.48 points, while in Paris the CAC 40 added 0.37 per ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... 3.02 points, to end at 2,073.10. Hong Kong was down 0.80 per cent, while Shanghai fell 0.74 per cent, or 16.26 points, to close at 2,185.30. Shenzhen also fell 1.01 per cent, or 11.72 points, to 1,148.29. The drop came despite Chinese manufacturing activity ...

Morphic fund listed in the BT Wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... funds that provide flexible hedging strategies. The Fund is long-short global equities strategy with a mid-cap focus and close to a two year track record. The Fund started in August 2012 and had delivered a return of 27.19% annualised and net of fees ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... helped it to a six-month high. The index lost 25.46 points to 15,620.77. Sydney added 0.18 per cent, or 10.01 points, to close at 5,632.9 and Seoul lost 0.31 per cent, or 6.49 points, to 2,076.12. Shanghai jumped 0.93 per cent, or 20.32 points, to 2,201.56 ...

Dying in social media: adviser's next big nightmare

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
Clients' presence on several social media platforms, with multiple accounts and passwords, is set to become a nightmare for financial advisers specialising in estate planning, as they will be forced to deal with the person's digital footprint after ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
By all indications, Wall Street should have closed on the hop last night, but it didn't. The S&P 500 index ended practically unchanged - up 0.01% -- despite the FOMC announcing it's steady as she goes (as expected) and the economy rebounding in the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... down 3.33 per cent as investors expected troubled Banco Espirito Santo to report significant first-half losses after the close. The euro slid to $US1.3370 - the lowest level since mid-November. It later recovered slightly to $US1.3373, down from $US1.3409 ...

New PJC inquiry will "close the loop" on consumer protection

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... parliamentary inquiry to lift professional, ethical and education standards in the financial services industry will help close the loop on the consumer protection mechanism, Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall has said. ...