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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received strongly positive leads from offshore trading overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0630 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was 32 points higher at 4,664 points. In economics news on Thursday ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was 1.3 per cent lower in intra-day trading, with offshore currency plays and China's surprise interest rate hike weighing on the market. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 63.6 points, or 1.37 per cent ...

Signposts to high yield

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... this year by Russell Investments and forms the basis of Russell's High Dividend Australian Shares ETF (RDV), listed on the ASX.

Rising tide lifts hedge funds in September

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
Despite failing to match the performance of benchmark indices in September, Australian and international hedge funds are out in front, year to date, and on a rolling 12-month basis, new figures show. According to the Australian Fund Monitors Hedge Fund ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0657 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was 37 points lower at 4,632 points. In economic news on Wednesday ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was higher at noon, as the market digested the minutes of the latest Reserve Bank monetary policy meeting, released late on Tuesday morning. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 18 points, or 0.39 per cent ...

Australia well behind in carbon pricing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
While Australian board responsibility may be high, standards fall behind global competitors in terms of carbon pricing and reduction targets. ASX100 companies executive responsibility for climate change reaches 94 per cent, ranking Australia third in ...

Challenger buoyed by annuities, boutiques

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... equities and property funds previously managed directly by Challenger. According to a statement released by the company to the ASX yesterday, Challenger's institutional funds under management rose more than $2 billion over the quarter to $14.6 billion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trade overnight, with European and US markets higher, including equities and commodities. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0713 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was ...

KKR bids for Perpetual

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) has made a takeover bid for Perpetual. According to an ASX statement this morning, Perpetual announced KKR approached the firm to buy all of Perpetual's shares at a price of $38 to $40 per share. ...