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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower after a mostly weaker lead from Wall Street before turning its attention to the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision on Tuesday. At 0702 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March ...

AXA Asia Pac growth mixed

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
AXA Asia Pacific enjoyed strong year-to-December fund flows in China, India, Thailand and Malaysia but 'new business' outside insurance slowed in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. The company announced last week that due to the weak markets globally ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Well now, there we have it. If the January effect holds, US equity investors and the rest of us should all go on vacation and come back next year. The January effect postulates that the US stock market's performance for the entire month of January predicts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower, after the falls in US equities, before attention turns to the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision. At 0720 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 64 ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... since 1980 - following a 0.6 per cent decline in the September quarter. Year-on-year real GDP fell by 1.8 per cent in December - the biggest fall since June 1991. Given the UK's worst outlook relative to its G7 peers -- in particular the US - it does ...

Mandate to the Future

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
The Future Fund is looking to build up its debt portfolio this year and beef up its alternatives portfolio with investments that have "niche" risk premia. David Neal, the Future Fund's chief investment officer, gave an insight on where they are likely ...

ING chief joins IFSA board

ING Australia's chief executive Harry Stout joins the IFSA board. Stout also takes up the position of chair of IFSA's Marketing and Distribution Board Committee. "Stout replaces former director, Rob Coombe who resigned from the IFSA Board on 1 December  ...

Trustee survey reveals top asset classes

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
Infrastructure, private equity and commodities are going to be the most preferred asset classes this year, according to a trustee survey released this week. According to a Centre for Investor Education survey of 30 industry fund trustees and retirement ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
Bad bank sparks optimism in US equities. Last night's decision by the US Federal Reserve's Federal Open Markets Committee to leave interest rates unchanged at virtually zero was a no-brainer. How can it do otherwise when the deepening financial and ...

Bigger fish to fry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
Inflation is coming back down all over the world. The trend in consumer prices in Australia will be no different. At 11:30 AM this morning, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release data showing how consumer prices fared in the December  ...