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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly higher after US stocks recovered late in the trading session on positive economic reports. Gold miners may gain on the rise in the precious metal and energy stocks may decline after the oil price ...

Fidelity India fund 'on hold'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
Standard & Poor's has placed the Fidelity India fund 'on hold' after the firm replaced the fund's portfolio manager. Fidelity Investments Australia's review resulted in Teera Chanpongsang taking over responsibility of the fund from Arun Mehra. Chanpongsang ...

Not-for-profit super funds reign

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
Not-for-profit super funds have consistently beaten retail funds by an average 2.4 per cent per year over nearly a five year period - resulting in some retail funds' members getting around 40 per cent less in their final retirement benefits, new research ...

Tasplan axes $280m State Street mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
The $1 billion Tasmanian industry fund Tasplan has withdrawn a $280 million in fixed interest and cash mandates with State Street and pumped a combined $275 million into Colonial First State and Vanguard. According to Neil Cassidy, general manager of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after Wall Street shares rallied after the Federal Reserve announced its plan to buy $US1 trillion ($A1.51 trillion) of bonds in a bid to pull the US economy out of a severe recession. At 0647 AEDT ...

BUSS(Q) buys Aussie equities

RUTH LIEW AND MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
The $1.5 billion building industry fund BUSS(Q) is topping up its Aussie equities mandates as early as next month in a bid to shore up on cheap stocks in the market. According to David O'Sullivan, chief executive of BUSS(Q), the fund is currently 3 ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
Wall Street jumped again overnight but Main Street's mood has turned from nervous insouciance to outright outrage. Hip, hip, hurray! Wall Street greeted St. Patrick's Day with a 3.2 per cent rally in the S&P 500, a 2.5 per cent jump in the Dow and the ...

Fitzsimons to head MasterKey Custom

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Ex-Plum Financial Services managing director Mike Fitzsimons has been appointed general manager of MasterKey Custom. Fitzsimons, who will commence his role in early April, will be responsible for the MasterKey Custom business - which has $8.3 billion ...

Currency cushions GFC hangover

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Institutional investors looking for a buffer to their rapidly depleting portfolios are now paying attention to BT Investment Management's Absolute Return Currency Fund - which last year lost only 1 per cent compared to some of its peers which lost up ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open flat after receiving mixed leads from overseas. Wall Street broke a four-day advance on Monday as a rally in financial stocks fizzled and dragged the market lower. Gold and silver prices were weaker, while ...