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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... Western Australia lunch in Sydney, while Bendigo and Adelaide Bank managing director Mike Hirst is down to speak at an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia lunch in Melbourne. In Australia, the market on Tuesday ended due to significant falls in ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... Michael Heffernan said the local bourse was trading on a positive note after the Easter break. "The pipe-opener was the American market last night, which was pretty solid given that European markets were closed," Mr Heffernan said. "The American market ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... February. Locally, in economic news on Thursday, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is scheduled to address the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia (AMCHAM) business luncheon in Brisbane. The Australian Bureau of Statistics is due ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat despite strong gains on Wall Street after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen was dovish about the US economy's recovery. At 0855 AEDT on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up four points ...

Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... forward view of the road ahead but also because investor sentiment is in neutral... literally. According to the latest American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) Sentiment Survey, "Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... adviser Michael Heffernan said the Australian bourse had opened in a veritable sea of green. "There's no doubt that the American market's pretty solid performance last night is the key catalyst for our performance," Mr Heffernan said. He said investors ...

NZ Super Fund invests in N American energy

PAUL MCBETH, AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... will invest up to $US250 million ($A277.12 million) with New York Stock Exchange-listed KKR to gain exposure to North American energy markets created by shale oil and gas resources. The fund will invest up to $US175m in KKR energy private equity investments ...

QBE invests in Invesco property fund

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
QBE Insurance Group (QBE) has invested into Invesco's North American Core Direct Property Fund, which invests exclusively in North American direct property assets. While Invesco would not reveal the amount of the investment, a spokesperson said that ...

Vale Gwen Fletcher

JULIE BENNETT  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... Australia (AM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Her contribution to global financial planning was recognised by the American financial planning community when she was awarded the prestigious Heart of Financial Planning Distinguished Service Award ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... professor Kevin Gallagher. This is, he points out, "more [investment] than the World Bank, US Export Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank combined". Africa and South America bagged!... and the Middle East. Early this year Chinese Foreign Minister ...