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Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker as a mixed lead from Wall Street, softer commodity prices and end of the week consolidation weigh on the domestic bourse. However, there are still a few earnings results due for release today that ...

Australia leads charge on super assets growth

Australia is beating the rest of the world when it comes to retirement savings with 95 per cent growth in assets in superannuation funds over the past five years, according to a Watson Wyatt survey. The asset consulting group's global research also ...

Alternative investing steadily going mainstream: JANA

Leading asset consultant JANA Investment Advisers told a press conference this week that 'alternative thinking' and 'alternative investments' are fast becoming an essential part of mainstream investing. "Increasingly, alternative investments are not ...

2006 market conditions will suit value investing: Tyndall

Tyndall, Standard and Poor's 2005 fund manager of the year, is warning that bonds would give few returns and equities may remain "overpriced" and these conditions will suit value managers. Bob Van Muster, head of equities, said as value managers Tyndall ...

High yield push driven by suppliers: Aon

Falling bond yields and fund managers needs to stay competitive with equities is pushing investors into high yield products, rather than a concerted demand push. John Stroud, head of client consulting at Aon Consulting, says people are just looking ...

Risk should be on the agenda: Aust Unity

Amid concerns on the US economy and its impact on the local market, Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has launched a fixed income fund with a strong focus on managing risk and getting absolute returns. The new fund is called Strategic Fixed Interest ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2005
... its Q1 production report and Austar is expected to release Q3 earnings. NEW YORK - US stocks fell as the benchmark bond yield hit the highest level in seven months on reignited concerns about inflation and interest rates, while a profit miss by Amazon.com ...

Aust bond market opens broadly unchanged ahead of US jobs report

... yield on the Commonwealth Government May 2013 bond was at 5.425% from 5.440 at yesterday\'s close and the October 2007 bond yield was steady at 5.210%. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September 2004 10-year bond futures contract was at 94.570 from ...

New horizon for MLC debt strategy

Fund manager MLC aims to protect its conservative investors against the risks of rising bond yields with the introduction of a tailored diversified bond strategy. The new strategy involves tailoring the average maturity and duration profiles of the ...

Merrill Lynch survey reveals upbeat global sentiment on equities

Buoyed by global reflation, world equity markets will be higher in 12 months time, a new survey of fund managers has revealed. The monthly global survey, conducted by Merrill Lynch revealed that managers were overweight equities, underweight bonds and ...