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ETF market has first fall in 20 months

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... sector signal a maturing industry, which is beginning to mimic the more developed ETF markets in Europe and the United States," Vynokur finished.

GreySpark consultancy opens in Australia

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... already being transformed by sweeping new regulatory reforms, with the introduction of the Dodd Frank Act in the United States and the European Union's European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). GreySpark said it is hoping to bring the expertise ...

Advisers can increase portfolio value by 3%

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... performance," Vanguard chief investment officer Tim Buckley said in a conference on exchange traded funds (ETF) in the United States. "That can be worth 150 basis points of performance a year," he added. "Think about asset allocation, and think through ...

Obama launches myRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
President of the United States Barack Obama has proposed a new retirement savings program called MyRA to help Americans prepare for retirement. The plan was unveiled in last week's 2014 State of the Union address. The plan will not require Congressional ...

China unlikely to achieve 10% growth again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... squeezed by raising wages and some have taken too much debt." He said that this phenomenon "is very positive for the United States." "The upside of rising wages and loosing competitiveness as a consequence of that is that you have a big increase of income ...

Another 10 bil to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... we are a legal creature of Congress and that we only have a mandate to concern ourselves with the interest of the United States."...and St. Louis Fed's James Bullard: "We're not going to make policy based on emerging-market volatility alone." Sowee there's ...

Artisan awarded Morningstar US International Manager of the Year

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... Samra and Dan O'Keefe have been awarded Morningstar's International-Stock Fund manager of the Year for 2013 in the United States. Artisan Global Value team manages the Artisan Global Value and International Value Funds and it first won the award in 2008. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... said the local bourse was only slightly lower. "It's really neither here nor there in my book," he said. In the United States on Friday, markets closed mixed after the monthly Labor Department report said the US economy added 74,000 jobs in December ...

Developed economies to outshine emerging world in 2014

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... -away from emerging markets and back toward developed countries. "This shift will be a benefit to regions like the United States, Europe, and Japan, who are still shaking off the remnants of the global financial crisis. But the farther that crisis recedes ...

Shale gas revolution could be worldwide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... to get that oil where it needs to be. They are flaring more natural gas than you can believe in the middle of the United States. They have to burn it off because they have nowhere to put it." He said that the US and Canada were not alone in having huge ...