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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
The Australian sharemarket is posting gains on the back of positive offshore leads, China's new stimulus package and rises in some commodities prices. However it gave up some of the morning's gains, going from 0.9 per cent to 0.6 per cent higher after ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Impressive! Nah Virginia, I refer not to the big bouncy bouncy Wall Street and European equity markets did last night - which almost instantaneously affirmed the rant I scribbled on this space yesterday that "the bad and the bad and the bad" that spooked ...

Frydenberg sets fuse on Trowbridge time bomb

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... Trowbridge Report. The federal member for Kooyong described the recommendations in report as 'interesting' giving the clearest signal yet that he wants to see a commitment from the industry to implement at least the spirit of the recommendations over ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after losses on Wall Street. At 0644 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was down eight points at 5,942. On Wall Street, stocks sagged ahead of the start of first-quarter-earnings ...

Contango appoints analysts to capitalise on growing markets

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
Contango Asset Management has appointed two senior investment analysts to capitalise on small and microcap Australian equities as well as "the rapidly expanding retirement incomes space." An expansion at Cotango was indicated earlier this year and the ...

Nikko partners geopolitical risk specialist

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
Nikko Asset Management has partnered with Eurasia Group to bring the global political risk research and consulting firm's geopolitical risk indicators within Nikko's multi-asset investment management process. Eurasia Group will provide the global investment ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street fell amid signs that US inflation is rising. At 0827 AEDT on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 10 points at 5,968. In local economic news on Wednesday, the ...

Getting SMSFs into infra not worth the effort

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
Convincing self-managed super funds (SMSFs) to invest in infrastructure is not worth the effort and the industry should be focusing on getting good projects out in the market, according to Infrastructure Partnerships Australia chief executive Brendan ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
It didn't happen on the night, but it happened last night. That perplexing perverse performance the financial markets gave to the deletion of the word 'patient' in the FOMC statement has gotten less perverse while we slept - the VIX index rose, so did ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street surged more than one per cent following the Federal Reserve's statement on interest rates. At 0815 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up 27 points at 5,880. ...