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Former REST exec joins Media Super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
... fund REST Industry Super. He left REST to take up his post at Media Super in July. Media Super chief executive Graeme Russell said the appointment would strengthen the fund's client relations and business development functions in pursuit of its growth ...

Mortgage Choice booms, invests in planners

AAP AND ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... goal of 60 advisers on the ground by 30 June 2015, with 33 already in place," Mortgage Choice chief executive Michael Russell said. "We are in a very exciting stage of the business. At present, we are successfully transitioning the business into a diversified ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... could trigger another dip on Wall Street. The S&P 500's down 1.0%, the Dow's down 0.8%, the Nasdaq's down 0.7% and the Russell 2000's down 0.3%. The bright side is that at least I learned something new; I know where in the world they are now, I learned ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... metrics... appear substantially stretched". But techs and smalls closed higher last night - the Nasdaq's up by 0.5% and the Russell 2000's up by 0.4%. So what gave? For what gave, we have to go back to the FOMC statement - and some small but salient ...

Liddell departs Russell Advisory Services

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
The head of Russell Investments' Australian consulting arm Greg Liddell has left the firm. Russell confirmed his departure but gave no details about whether a replacement would be appointed. Liddell joined Russell in 2009, after working at QIC and Mercer. ...

Down one day, dip buying the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... prices for such firms early in the year." While the S&P 500 closed only 0.2% lower, the index for those "smaller firms" (Russell 2000) fell by more than 1.0%. But have no fear, the dip buyers were there. S&P 500 index up by 0.4% the next day before dropping ...

A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... just 0.2% below its 3 July high; the Nasdaq ended 0.2% higher after rising as much as 0.7% in intra-day trade while the Russell 2000 went up by 0.5% before closing 0.2% down (can't take chances with these Fed-nominated "stretched" valued sectors, you ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... indices performance, it seems like we're back to the attack on the momo, smalls, biotech and net stocks once more. The Russell 2000's down 1.2%, the Nasdaq's down 1.4%, the DJ Internet Composite down 3%, the Nasdaq Biotechnology down 2.2%. Thankfully ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... new record, the S&P 500 rose to new highs and is less than a percent away from reaching its 2,000-point milestone, the Russell 2000's also at a fresh high and the Nasdaq (though still about 11% away) is climbing steadily towards the dotcom high established ...

Slow and steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... subdued overnight when it jumped - big time - on 'sort of' good data points the night before"? Heck, the Nasdaq and the Russell 2000 indices even posted losses last night. Profit-taking? Perhaps. Awaiting confirmation from the official US Non-farm Payrolls ...