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Boring same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... happening now in Portugal. Last night, Banco de Portugal cut its 2012 growth forecast to down 3.4% (previously down 3.1%) and to a big fat zero next year, up from 0.3%. Could it be because of the spending cuts and increased taxes the government has implemented ...

HIP Super members get access to Best Doctors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... normally expect such innovations to be associated with large funds using their huge economies of scale, but Bernays said a big fund would have been too large to be absorbed into the program. "We certainly hear about bigger funds being better but at HIP ...

Advisers told to rethink growth asset allocations

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... at an industry event. These were two key messages from global investment manager PIMCO, delivered at yesterday's Adviser's Big Day Out Investment Manager Roadshow. With macroeconomic discussions for the day centred on a long-ranging backdrop of austerity ...

Market ripe for private equity

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... a lot of their private equity holdings from their balance sheets and someone has to buy these." Speaking at the Adviser's Big Day Out Investment Manager Roadshow yesterday, Partners Group urged advisers to consider the asset class, which has previously ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
The Australian share market has opened lower, following a weak lead from US markets overnight. At 1010 AEDT on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 2.7 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 4,298.6 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

China FUM rise challenges Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
Australia and Japan currently make up half the Asia region mutual fund market, but China's rapid rise could change the dynamic and create new opportunities for investment managers able to tailor their distribution models. Mutual fund assets across the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
The Australian share market is set to open lower after a fall on Wall Street due to lower consumer confidence. At 0804 AEDT on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 21 points at 4,307. In economic news, the Reserve Bank of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... linked support for risk assets overnight, Benny Sada, senior equities analyst with Australian Stock Report said. "We saw a big rally in stocks and commodities and not surprisingly our materials sector is leading today's rally." Commodities rallied overnight ...

Big Ben boosta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... that workers are able to obtain the skills needed to meet the demands of our rapidly changing economy." And with these words, Big Ben has laid out the groundwork for another QE. He's shovel ready. Although at this point, I don't think we're quite at ...

No greed, no fear, no volume

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
... companies' profits perhaps... but only for a short while. And then the bigger macro dynamics assert themselves. Just last week Big Ben told the US Congress how. "Higher energy prices would probably slow growth, at least in the short run." They could ...