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Praemium appoints new CEO as platform business booms

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... closely to help with the expansion of Praemium's UK team, while Stammer also sees great growth potential in Australia. "The big opportunity comes from the de-regulation of the financial services industry," said Stammer. "Our technology with V-Wrap and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... European Central Bank at the weekend as they tried to prevent another day of market turmoil. But it was not enough to prevent big falls in Asia. Tokyo shed 2.18 per cent, or 202.32 points, lower at 9,097.56, and Seoul sank 3.82 per cent, or 74.31 points ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... also provided a boost, with Woodside up 77 cents, or 2.23 per cent, at $35.32, while Santos was 10 cents firmer at $11.62 The big four banks were mixed. ANZ was down 12 cents at $18.98, Commonwealth Bank was 34 cents stronger at $46.60, Westpac was five ...

Money moves from listed managed investments to ETFs

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... (LMI) monthly update for July showed listed investment companies, infrastructure funds and absolute return funds were the big losers with capital flowing out. Listed absolute return funds suffered a 19.1% reduction in total market capitalisation over ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Australian stocks are tipped to be pushed into the red again today after America's credit rating was downgraded for the first time in its history over the weekend. Hopes for a bounce on the Australian share market after a horror Friday appear to have ...

USA no longer AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Uh-oh, we're in trouble now - really big trouble -- or so they say. No use pretending not to know what I'm talking about, it's splattered all over the weekend news. S&P has dropped one A from the USA's AAA. I must admit, I too didn't know what to think ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... National Australia Bank fell $1.01 to $21.66, Westpac was down 69 cents at $19.08, while Commonwealth, the least affected of the big banks, lost $1.30, less than three per cent, to $46.25. Telstra was down ten cents at $2.86, Woolworths lost 40 cents ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... the USA has re-emerged alongside the re-flaring of concerns over that lingering debt issue across the Atlantic - where the big economies of Italy and Spain are now in the crosshairs of bond mercenaries. And... safe haven flows into Japan has strengthened ...

Super funds hit back at anti-carbon tax groups

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
Superannuation funds and fund managers have warned against the advertising campaign against the carbon tax, with concerns it's misleading the public and threatening a shareholder resolution. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), responsible for ...

School's in for hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... over there. Only 20% of graduates entering the hedge fund sector went to one of the top five schools. The survey also found big differences in the types of jobs each university seemed to prepare students for. "A closer look at 2011 senior hires found ...