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Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... decline in May.... and more good US stats. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) non-manufacturing index jumped to its fastest pace in nine years, to a better-than-expected and a recovery high reading of 58.7 in July. This followed last week's higher-than-predicted ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... points, to 1,148.29. The drop came despite Chinese manufacturing activity increasing sharply in July and rising at its fastest pace in more than two years. The official purchasing managers index, hit 51.7 -- its best showing since April 2012. WELLINGTON ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... revenue in Russia in 2012, accounting for 7.42% of their total net revenue, and the country also represents one of Pepsi's fastest-growing markets. The company has been buying up Russian firms, including a $5.4 billion acquisition of the leading dairy ...

Passive FUM reaches all-time high

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... management market it represents to a record high of 19%, new data from Rainmaker Information reveals. The rise is the fastest 12 month gain since March 2009 to March 2010 and brings total indexed funds under management to just over $340 billion. Rainmaker's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... The economy is now 0.2 per cent bigger than before its pre-GFC peak in early 2008. The IMF predicts Britain will be the fastest-growing major world economy in 2014. The euro fell to $US1.3433 from $US1.3464 at the end of a week during which the euro ...

Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... component of the manufacturing PMI rose to 39-month high in June, employment growth in the construction PMI surged to their fastest pace on record since the survey started in April 1997. Similarly, the services PMI showed a record increase in employment ...

FUM closes in on $2trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... held in cash by investment managers. The cash weighting across the FUM market is equivalent to 12.3%. Meanwhile the five fastest growing asset classes over the year were active extension, private equity, international equities, listed property and combined ...

Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... US$18.5 billion in the previous month. Retail spending increased by a better-than-expected 12.5% in the year to May - the fastest annual pace in five months. Industrial production growth quickened to 8.8% in the year to May from 8.7% in the previous ...

Blue Sky raises $60.4 million for first listed alternatives fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... Blue Sky's investment director Alexander McNab said. According to Rainmaker data from December 2013, alternatives are the fastest growing asset class in Australia, increasing from 5% of all investments in 1997 to more than 13% at the end of 2013. This ...

UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... between December 2011 and June 2012 rebounded in September 2012 and before shrinking anew in December of 2012 - to now, the fastest growing G7 country. UK GDP grew by 3.1% in the year to the March quarter this year - nearly double the 1.7% rate King ...