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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... $5.67, after more than tripling its profit. Insurer IAG gained eight cents to $6.34 after it said it expected to lift its gross written premium by up to 20 per cent in the 2015 fiscal year. Shares in fellow insurance giant QBE were in a trading halt ...

Maurice Blackburn mulls class action against Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Maurice Blackburn is considering starting a class action against Macquarie in light of the growing number of disgruntled Macquarie Private Wealth customers approaching the litigator. Maurice Blackburn head of the financial disputes department John Berrill ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... showed that US weekly applications for unemployment aid last week climbed 21,000 to a seasonally-adjusted 311,000. German gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.2 per cent in the June quarter prompting speculation the European Central Bank would ...

UBS Dynamic Alpha Strategy wins large insto mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... Fund's objective is to generate returns through active asset and currency allocation, and this strategy has delivered a 5.74% gross return per annum above the UBS Bank bill index, over the last five years. This has been achieved with around half the ...

Stan Life Inv GARS added to Macquarie Wrap

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... strategy has a risk expectation of a third to half of the equity market, with a target return of cash plus 5% per annum (gross of fees), over rolling three-year periods. The volatility of the fund over the four-year period has been just 4.3% compared ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... In Europe, http://www.notre-europe.eu/ noted that, "...whilst on average western European countries spent 3.1% of their Gross Domestic Product on defence between 1985 and 1989, this figure had fallen to 1.7%10 in 2008, and this was before the budgetary ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... ramifications for the balance of power in the global economy. He explained that in purchasing power parity terms, China's gross national product (GNP) as a share of global GNP was less than one-tenth that of US in 1980. But in the coming years it will ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... With little corporate and economic news to give much drive to the market, investors likely would look toward US quarterly gross domestic product figures and a US Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday to provide direction, he said. At 1200 AEST, QBE was ...

WAM Capital posts record profit

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... discount for the final dividend. Chief executive Kate Thorley said: "The Company has continued to grow and perform with gross assets increasing 26% to $613.2 million and a return to shareholders of 30% over the year." WAM Capital's investment portfolio ...

NAB sells $1bn worth of UK property loans

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... Global Investors. NAB said the sale was intended to de-risk its UK Commercial Real Estate (CRE) portfolio, reducing the gross loans balance by 20% to A£2.38 billion. It said the sale of the loans, which are either in default, passed maturity or near ...