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Great Southern branches outside agribusiness

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... Management is the underlying manager for the All Caps Australian Share Fund, which has a selection of large, small and micro cap stocks with different market capitalisations. This partnership allows retail investors access to Adam Smith Asset Management's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after US stocks advanced on Monday as investors snapped up beaten-down financial shares on news of the latest injection of funds into a major global bank. Expectations of a Federal Reserve interest-rate ...

Better beta through fundamental indexing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... exposures. For example, through traditional indexing, their returns are reliant on the market cap weighting of the underlying stocks. "The biggest problem with normal approaches is they give you large weightings to the biggest companies even though are ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... things are generally alright." BHP was up 29 cents to $43.79 and Rio Tinto was up $1.78 to $147.26. In the US overnight, stocks were little changed as a sharp drop in oil prices and signs of resilience in the labour market offset concerns that tighter ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... index closed up 53.8 points, or 0.82 per cent, to 6654.7 and the All Ordinaries gained 53.5 points to 6714. NEW YORK - US stocks ended little changed on Friday as a sharp drop in oil prices and signs of resiliency in the labor market offset concerns ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... The Australian share market closed yesterday almost one and half per cent higher, buoyed by local resource and financial stocks and a strong lead from Wall Street overnight. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 92.8 points, or 1.43 per cent, to 6600.9 ...

First Quadrant launches fund for all seasons

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... selection, stock country selection, currency selection and volatility management. "Asset class positioning is bearish for global stocks and bullish for global bonds in comparison, but at a reduced level," he said. "Positioning in the equity country selection ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 22.7 points to 6508.1, while the All Ordinaries lost 20.4 points to 6568.4. NEW YORK - US stocks rose overnight, led by a resurgence in technology shares, after a slew of economic reports pointed to strength in the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... will be another fairly average day, I'd say. We'll prbbaly finish down a bit today but no more than half a per cent." US stocks fell for a second straight day on concerns about the impact of the credit crisis on bank profits and the wider economy. In ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... S&P/ASX200 index closed 2.7 points lower to 6530.8, while the All Ordinaries was down 8.4 points to 6588.8. NEW YORK - US stocks fell overnight as investors worried about the impact of the credit crisis on financial services companies' profits and on ...