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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... while the tech-laden Nasdaq Composite added 17.56 points, or 0.66 per cent, to 2,686.75 points. RBS Morgans' director of equities, Bill Chatterton, said there were pockets of interest from investors across the local market on Friday that helped it edge ...

Currency Forum to pose big questions

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... ramifications for Australia and risk and management strategies. Specialist presentations from Richard Grace, chief economist equities, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Simon Wu, executive director, Premium China Funds Management will be followed by ...

Trafford-Walker takes new role after securing CEO

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... services. Asset allocation would be the next one we'd look at whether we should do something separately and then Australian equities could be the next logical one," said Trafford-Walker. "The other thing we're focused on is the not for profit space ...

AMP senior shuffle

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
AMP Capital Investors has appointed a new head of fundamental equities and co-heads of Asian equities. Karma Wilson, the current head of Asian Equities, has announced her plans to leave Australia and the hunt is underway for a permanent replacement. ...

Perpetual transitions team around Sevior

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... taken over the role. Meanwhile, portfolio manager Matt Williams, who has worked with Sevior for 17 years, will be head of equities from July onwards with assistance from fellow portfolio manager, Charlie Lanchester. Matt McKinnon, general manager, Retail ...

Sevior departure rated as permanent

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... would raise questions how Perpetual would rearrange the team. Portfolio manager, Matt Williams, will take over as head of equities from July onwards with assistance by fellow portfolio manager, Charlie Lanchester. "Obviously they have made some significant ...

ANZ employs GBST platform

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... assets within one system. ANZ will use it to increase transparency and control in processing fixed income, treasury, equities and OTC derivatives assets, and also for central reference data management. GBST said that it had a number of new deals in the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... morning. "There has been a bit of profit taking on the back of the Greek vote in currency markets, which is rubbing off on equities and locking in some profits," he told AAP. "There has been a lot of events smacking markets around recently, so there ...

Advisers turn from managed funds to ETFs: BetaShares

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... said. At the launch, figures sourced from S&P showed more than 80 per cent of active fund managers in general Australian equities had underperformed the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index last year. A further 70.6 per cent of active fund managers underperformed ...

AMP gives $2.8 billion to two new managers

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... managers had been given tracking error guidelines to meet the performance objective in international developed market equities. The aggregate tracking error of the three combined managers would be 60 to 70 basis points, he said. AMP Capital has also ...