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Earnings on the up for industrials

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... has seen some of the worst performance in terms of the pension sector globally over the past year on the back of high equities exposure, although some benefit to stock portfolios will come from recent acquisitions, according to Baker.

RBS signs MOU for sale of Asian assets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... memorandum of understanding with the Royal Bank of Scotland. The MOU covers the purchase of certain parts of the cash equities, equity capital markets and corporate finance businesses in Asia Pacific, according to CIMB. "The MOU provides for the parties ...

Attitude overhaul needed: Perpetual

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... past few years, who have been told repeatedly to hang in there, they have had the same meeting every year, hearing that equities are down 12% and they are simply starting to run out of patience. "They are saying to advisers I don't care anymore, I want ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... loss but the broader S&P 500 index did - up 0.62% from down 0.47% the previous day. And so did, the Nasdaq. And European equities, the DJ Euro Stoxx-50 surged by 1.5% at the close of last night's activity, completely making up for the previous night's ...

Portfolio manager changes at Perpetual

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... manager with its current head, Matt Williams, to forgo his role leading the fund to focus on his other duties as head of equities. Since 2002, Williams and portfolio manager Charlie Lanchester, who is also deputy head of equities, have managed the Industrial ...

UBS names ING IM transfers

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... from April 1 once the integration of the firm into UBS is complete on March 30. These include Joel Fleming, Australian equities small companies, David Scott and Patrick Barrett, property securities, Michael Fanning, structured beta and indexing, and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... Statistics (ABS) releases retail trade figures for January and data on construction work done for December quarter. In equities news, Seven Group Holdings, Hastie Group and Harvey Norman are expected to post first half results, while Macquarie Atlas ...

MLC shakes up portfolio allocations

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... being appointed to replace Concord Capital to manage a passive mandate. Peter Sumner, portfolio manager of Australian equities at MLC Investment Management, said the group needed greater diversity across the portfolios with the former managers all pursuing ...

Good not great

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... nearly as well. Shouldn't we be moving in lockstep with America's or better yet, given our "wonderful" fundamentals, US equities should be eating our stock market's dust? Case in point, as at last Friday's closing the S&P 500 index has surged by 101.9% ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... March share price index futures contract was down one point at 4,269. No major economic news is expected on Tuesday. In equities news, Harvey Norman Holdings and Boral ar among the companies due to report first half, while Prime Media Group, QBE Insurance ...