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HOSTPLUS $1bn mandate up for grabs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... equity markets last year - $550 million into international and probably $350 million into Australian equities. "We have pretty strong cash flows, and we have another billion to spend this year," he said. The fund wrapped up its latest board meeting last ...

Asia Pac property assets draw mandate appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... come back in...as the market gets pricier here. Australia is one of those markets where you have a lot of savings and a pretty small property market. "Historically, they have looked overseas [for investments]," said Jacobson. Kenneth Tsang, head of Asia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... "The news ain't that bad," Mr Morrow said. "(The market has) had some good news to support it, but we're running into some pretty big headwinds from the US and over uncertainty over the financial system in Europe," he said. "We're starting to see the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... fell short of expectations. "We seem to be almost equating the US point for point on the downside... and again it's on pretty light volume," Mr Wright said. "There is largely an absence of disappointing data. It's almost all uniformly encouraging, which ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... March share price index contract was 20 points higher at 4,592, on volume of 18,110 contracts. "News Corp came out with pretty positive results before the market opened and that business is likely to see some analyst upgrades," RBS Morgans Brisbane private ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... encouraging set of manufacturing reports in overseas markets had buoyed the market. "The global manufacturing data we got from pretty much all around the world was very, very strong last night," Mr Weston said. "We do still have quite a few downside ...

Shadow shop reveals service gap among planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... for service advice and not accepting commissions in terms of what we recommend to members so we think our brand ethos is pretty well understood and known," he said. "The rest of the industry is struggling with a fee for service and no commission market ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... cent in the middle of the day after being down about 0.8 per cent at the start of the day. "So the market's on track for a pretty good performance in the lead up to the company reporting season."

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... debt issues," Mr Hancock said. "Commodities came down a little bit, between 0.6 per cent and 1.5 per cent. They've had a pretty good run and volumes are still holding up." BHP Billiton fell 55 cents, or 1.26 per cent, to $43.10, while rival Rio Tinto ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... lot of event risk, you could say." Mr Potter said the weak tone on the share market was "very surprising". "Leads were pretty reasonable. The US indices posted modest gains," he said. The big miners were lower at noon, with BHP Billiton down 42 cents ...