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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... shares rose to a four-and-a-half-year high as the prospect of continued low interest rates spurred investors to look to equities for better returns. The NZX 50 Index rose 18.35 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 3889.60, the highest since January 10, 2008.

Frontier Advisors makes four new hires

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... Advisors has made four new hires to its Melbourne office including Fraser Murray as a senior consultant to head up its equities research team. Murray joins from Ibbotson Associates, where he held the role as head of equities and property. He commences ...

Super funds line up for Sevior

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
Veteran stock picker John Sevior's new fund is being reviewed by CBUS Super for an Australian Equities mandate. CBUS - which had an Australian equities mandate with Sevior's former employer Perpetual at the time of his departures - said that it is doing ...

Credit Suisse fined by ASIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Credit Suisse Equities has paid $52,000 to ASIC for interference in market integrity due to use of the wrong trading strategy in its automated order processing system. The infringement occurred last May when a client erroneously initiated an unintended ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... to 4,402.8. In economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its financial aggregates for August. In equities news, managing director of Rio Tinto Coal Australia Bill Champion is scheduled to deliver a speech at Griffith University. ...

Investment teams need more skin in game

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... absolute return target than a relative target given that 10 year bonds have just fallen and provided a tail wind for equities. "We've built SAAs based on a set of circumstances that won't appear again so we know that's not going to work going forward ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... Australian stocks have opened weaker for the fourth successive day as concerns that Spain could seek a bail-out hit resource equities. At 1015 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 14.6 points, or 0.33 per cent, at 4,347.0 points ...

Australian super funds, world's third best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... Australia's super funds recorded the third best returns net of inflation in the OECD despite having the highest weighting to equities, reveals new research from the OECD. Denmark was the top performing pension fund nation during calendar year 2011 earning ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is due to release August's job vacancies data. In equities news, toy maker Funtastic is due to post full year results. NSW Minister for Fair Trading John Roberts is expected to speak ...

Investor confidence index down: State Street

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... investors. The index assigns a meaning to changes in investor risk appetite: the greater the percentage allocation to equities, the higher risk appetite or confidence. A reading of 100 is neutral; it is the level at which investors are neither increasing ...