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Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... Asian markets climbed, with Japan's Nikkei leading the way, fuelled by continuing weakness in the yen and a powerful performance on Wall Street, where the Dow closed near its record high. Tokyo jumped 2.28 per cent, or 247.23 points, to 11,113.95, its ...

CBUS to review products to tempt SMSFs

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... platforms if it goes ahead with a plan to become a Pooled Superannuation Trust, which it said depends on investment market performance towards the end of 2013. CBUS executive manager of investment strategy Kristian Fok told Financial Standard this morning ...

Confident Instos return to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... institutions. Institutional investors in Asia also showed renewed optimism, pushing the local index up 3.9 points. Strong performance of financial markets was not enough to prompt an uptick in Europe however, where institutional investors' confidence ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat following a mixed performance on Wall Street ahead of consumer confidence and housing data and in anticipation of a US Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting. At 0644 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price ...

Mixed outlook for Aussie dollar

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... argued that the Australian dollar would in fact come closer to parity over the next 12 months. Buoyed by the surprising performance of the US economy in the recent weeks and a strengthening in the greenback, he predicted a fall to US$0.96 cents.

RBF shakes up fund with two new mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... have achieved this by removing overlap between managers and focusing the fee budget where it will have the biggest performance impact - mid and small cap stocks." RBF's new fund managers are Balanced Equity Management, which has an ASX50 mandate, and ...

Falling interest rates undermine seniors' confidence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... economy. Meantime, Fidelity head of Australian equities Paul Taylor said he saw no reason why strong share market performance in 2012 could not be repeated over the next 12 months.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher, despite a mixed performance on Wall Street overnight. At 0645 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 12 points at 4,793. No major economic news is expected on Friday. In equities ...

HOSTPLUS to become a PST

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... HOSTPLUS aims to launch the new model in the latter half of 2013 if markets continue to deliver positive investment performance. Revelations of HOSTPLUS plans to become a PST follow last week's revelations that it was one of the clear standouts in a ...

Aussie equities to rise another 20% in 2013: Fidelity

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... Australian equity market returned close to 20% last year and the Aussie equity specialist sees no reason why that performance can't be repeated in 2013. "Australian market valuations remain attractive from a medium to long-term investment perspective ...