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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following sharp falls on Wall Street overnight as investors digest a positive start to the US earnings season, a eurozone deal to help support Spain and its banks, and disappointing Chinese trade data. At ...

HFT strategy profiling lab launched

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
Australian firm First Derivatives has launched a testing lab for HFT strategies and algorithms. Developed to allow firms to test their high frequency trading (HFT) algorithms and methods prior to live market release, the lab also has potential implications ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
The Australian share market has opened higher, driven by lower than expected falls on US markets overnight. At 1050 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 17 points, or 0.41 per cent, at 4,135.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher despite falls on Wall Street and European markets overnight following a spike in Spanish bond yields. At 0825 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up five points at ...

'Brownfield' infra better suited to pension funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... "Governments who own 'brownfield' assets will sell those assets to funds like ourselves or direct to pension funds (if they are big enough) and will then have the capital to invest in 'greenfield' projects themselves," Crosbie said. "Alternatively, large ...

Zurich introduces new equity income fund

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
Zurich Australia has introduced a new fund called Zurich Investments Global Equity Income Fund. Launched in partnership with PM Capital and Zurich Australia, the fund is designed to provide investors access to global equity markets with enhanced levels ...

ASFA backs CSIRO/Monash superannuation research alliance

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... economy." The Alliance will provide stakeholders with evidence, tools and the opportunity to work together to address the big challenges of managing superannuation and create a win/win situation where the funds (and their members) have higher returns ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
We're in trouble now... big trouble. That's the ugly picture painted by the latest US non-farm payrolls report and Wall Street's reaction to it. The S&P 500 fell by 0.94%, the Dow by 0.96% and the Nasdaq by 1.30% the day the US Labor Department released ...

SMSFs need better access to alternatives: BlueSky

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
The focus by fund managers on the 'big end of town' has negatively impacted SMSFs, who have missed out on quality options for alternative returns, according to BlueSky Alternative Investments. This is despite SMSF significant cash weighting making them ...

Regulation biggest concern for SFOs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
Tax and regulatory issues are the biggest concern for single-family offices in terms of risks to managing investments, according to a survey from J.P. Morgan Private Bank. A poll of 125 single family offices (SFO), each with more than US$100 million ...