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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after a rally in petroleum-linked equities helped lift US stocks following mixed earnings and economic data. At 0805 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up 38 points at 5,937. ...

FEATURE: How boutiques got their groove back

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Hamish Douglass, Roger Montgomery, Kerr Neilson, David Paradice, Tim Samway, John Sevior, Anton Tagliaferro, Geoff Wilson. These are some of the leading lights in the local investment market. What they all have in common is finding huge amounts of success ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
Crrr-unch! That's the sound of China's trade numbers collapsing. And it was a thunderous thud, Virginia. The country's trade surplus shrank to US$3.08 billion in March from $60.6 bil in February and expectations for a US$40 bil print. With imports dropping ...

Europe and Japan becoming preferred equity markets

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
Both Credit Suisse and Standard Life Investments have updated their global outlooks for 2015, highlighting a growing preference for Japanese and European equities. These markets have benefited from recovery after weak growth in 2014; profits growth ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
What lifts all boats? Nah, Virginia, it's no longer "a rising tide" - not if you believe the IMF's latest annual World Economic Outlook (WEO) report published this month where it printed, "Output across advanced and emerging market economies remains ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
The share market is slightly higher on a quiet day, with the main indices trading within a narrow range around 5,900 points since interest rates were kept on hold. Offshore markets provided positive leads but CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner ...

Go south young (China) man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
There was fear and a lot of uncertainty - perhaps even the biblical gnashing of teeth - back then, back during the late years leading to the expiry of the United Kingdom's 99-lease on Hong Kong from China on 1 July 1997. In Wikipedia's words, "Many ...

Active managed fund returns worsen against indices

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
The average active fund's performance versus index strategies has worsened compared to the previous six months, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) Scorecard. The report, issued semi-annually, tracks the performance of ...

The first is always the best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
Maybe June. Perhaps one of the 'ber' months of 2015. Could be early 2016 or later that year. Or... until the twelfth of never? This, as much, is what the much-awaited minutes of the 17-18 March FOMC meeting told us. That Yellen & Co, themselves, aren't ...

Emerging markets a no go in 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
Investors are planning to sell their emerging market exposure in 2015 according to the latest survey by global asset manager Legg Mason. The survey, which sought investment habits and expectations from more than 4,200 high net worth investors across ...