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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... cent, or 40.5 points, to close at 5,321.8, while Seoul rose 0.21 per cent, or 4.08 points, to close at 1,969.91. Shanghai advanced 0.58 per cent, or 15.98 points, to 2,779.53, but Hong Kong fell 0.95 per cent, or 225.68 points, to 23,428.62. The US Commerce ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... gains. Commonwealth Bank was up 13 cents at $81.14, National Australia Bank had gained 43 cents to $32.89, Westpac had advanced eight cents to $33.15 and ANZ had lifted 16 cents to $32.54. Health insurer Medibank Private was doing well on its third day ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... rose just 0.2 per cent in October, compared with a revised 0.2 per cent decline in September. But US new homes sales advanced 0.7 per cent in October to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 458,000. In local economic news on Thursday, the Australian ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... and Fortescue Metals surged 28 cents, or 10.41 per cent, to $2.97. Atlas Iron was up one cent at 21 cents, and BC Iron advanced five cents to 61 cents. Among the major banks, the Commonwealth Bank was up 24 cents at $80.33, ANZ scraped off one cent at ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... record close. The broad-based S&P 500 gained 10.75 (0.52 per cent) to 2,063.50, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 11.10 (0.24 per cent) to 4,712.97. The People's Bank of China unexpectedly cut benchmark interest rates for the first ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... gained 10.48 (0.51 per cent) to 2,051.80, notching its third straight record, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 31.44 (0.67 per cent) to 4,702.44. US homebuilder confidence rose by four points to 58, according to the National Association ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... gained 10.48 (0.51 per cent) to 2,051.80, notching its third straight record, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 31.44 (0.67 per cent) to 4,702.44. US homebuilder confidence rose by four points to 58, according to the National Association ...

Non-aligned licensee inquiries to rise in 2015

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
Independence, the flexibility to build an approved product list and cheaper, more advanced technology and platforms are encouraging more advisers to leave large licensees and strike out on their own. The big four banks and AMP have collectively seen ...

Forward guidance at its best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... Marx's "The Communist Manifesto" to drive home his point. It's them. "Since we last met, indicators across much of the advanced and emerging world have been moribund." "A spectre is now haunting Europe - the spectre of economic stagnation, with growth ...

Active management under threat from smart ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... said traditional active fund managers may be forced to review their business propositions in the light of the growth in advanced beta products. "Smart beta opens up new things you can do," said Blitzer. "In the US advisers are increasingly using ETFs ...