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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker on Thursday following a fall on Wall Street as disappointing corporate earnings results acted as a drag on the US market. At 0746 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index ...

Future Fund trumps market, but only just

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
The $64 billion Future Fund returned 5.6 per cent (ex-Telstra) in the latest quarter, marginally more than what was delivered by asset sector benchmarks. A June quarter versus September quarter analysis of the numbers shed some light on how the fund's ...

Sentry buys AFG Financial Planning

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
National dealer group Sentry Group has acquired the financial planning arm of Australia's largest mortgage broker, Australian Finance Group - bringing Sentry's funds under advice to $2.2 billion. ING Australia-backed Sentry Group acquired Australia ...

Rio Tinto Super explores alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
The corporate superannuation fund for Rio Tinto employees has introduced a new alternative growth asset class to diversify into the unlisted markets. The Rio Tinto Staff Superannuation Fund introduced the new asset class on 10 September. As a result ...

Our fearful trip is done

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
"O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting..." Walt Whitman wrote this poem after US President Abraham Lincoln's assassination ...

Simple advice at GESB

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
WA-based super fund GESB has launched a free Simple Advice service to boost its financial planning services to its 310,000 members. Providing easy access to advice over the phone, Simple Advice enables GESB to improve the financial well-being of its ...

Shadow of a doubt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
Could it be that the shadow of doubt is slowly creeping back into market consciousness? Sure, Wall Street jumped last night but why didn't the justifications sound as convincing as say, back in the first half of the year, when green shoots were all ...

Bennelong wins AMP mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
Bennelong Australian Equity Partners (BAEP) has won a mandate to manage AMP Capital Investors' Future Directions Australian Share Fund's Australian equities investments. BAEP will manage 14 per cent of the Fund's portfolio. Bennelong joins AMP Capital ...

AMP appoints multi asset group head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
AMP Capital Investors has appointed David Kiddie in a new role as head of the Multi Asset Group. Kiddie will report to AMP Capital Investors managing director Stephen Dunne, effective 4 November 2009. Kiddie has 25 years experience in the investment ...

Fundies struggle to manage costs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... management as well as the profitability of the firms that manage them," said Walter. "This is likely to continue well into the future - few statistical finding in modern finance are as robust as the impact of expenses." This year's Global Investment ...