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Premium China expands distribution team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... funds will have a very nasty surprise. Over the last five years yield funds have done particularly well and outperformed equities - that's on the back of the fact that interest rates have been going down and as rates go down, [enabling] you [to] make ...

MLC property fund faces leadership change

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... house Standard & Poor's. Keighran will relinquish his portfolio management responsibilities to Jonathan Armitage, head of equities and Australian equities portfolio manager Peter Sumner. It is understood that Armitage will assume responsibility for portfolio ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... June share price index futures contract was down 48 points at 4,011. No major economic news is expected on Friday. In equities news, Central Petroleum Ltd, Orion Metals Ltd, Mount Burgess Mining NL, NuSep Holdings Ltd and Australasian Resources Ltd are ...

Towers Watson's clients top $15bn in Smart Beta

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... estate securities and specialist infrastructure strategies to create liquid diversity and capture non-market cap weighted equities. Craig Baker, global head of investment research at Towers Watson, said Smart Beta is about trying to identify good investment ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... 4,144. In economic news on Thursday, the Reserve Bank of Australia bulletin for the June quarter 2012 is due out. In equities news, Australian Ethical Investments and Echo Resources are due to hold general meetings while FINSIA has the Australian Executive ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... June share price index futures contract was up 28 points at 4,156 with 50,484 contracts traded. RBS Morgan's Brisbane equities director Bill Chatterton said the domestic market had followed Wall Street's positive lead. "We had a good market in the US ...

EM specialist enters Australian market

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... Capital. "If you look at how a typical super fund structures its portfolio there will be an allocation within global equities to allocate to emerging markets." Donovan said the mid to small cap component of the underlying portfolio is an area that Advanced ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... Richards, to scheduled to address the Australian Banking and Finance Retail Financial Services Forum 2012 in Sydney. In equities news, Allied Gold Mining Plc and Reclaim Industries are due to hold annual general meetings while HealthLinx has an extraordinary ...

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... were able to celebrate Greece's decision to be tortured inside the euro rather than outside it, Wall Street and European equities didn't even get a look in on, this, the first trading day after the Greek vote. Wall Street ended flat with the Dow down ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... 4,122. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its June 5 board meeting. In equities news, The Federal Court sits in Melbourne to approve recent settlement in Centro class action, while Swift Resources Ltd lists ...