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Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
The Australian market has opened marginally higher amid quiet trading with Wall Street closed because of Hurricane Sandy. At 1030 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 2.8 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 4,479.7 points, while the broader ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
The Australian share market is set to open slightly higher on Tuesday but trading volumes are expected to be low as Wall Street remains closed due to Hurricane Sandy. The New York Stock Exchange was closed on Monday and will remain closed for a second ...

UK becoming OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012

Schroders wins top fund manager award

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... investment team's philosophy of trying to look through the cycle, irrespective of the asset class, and take a longer term view. "Bear in mind valuation and returns you are going to get for the risk you are taking on," Cooper said. "The sort of volatile ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... States and better policies in the euro area...". From that day on till the WEO update on 16 July, the S&P 500 lost 2.7%. Bear with me please, we're nearly there. On that 16th day of July, the IMF warned that, "an already sluggish global recovery shows ...

Aussie shares to rally within a year: Russell

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
A sustainable turnaround in the Australian share market is predicted within the next 12 months, according to a Russell Investments research report. Russell's Investment Manager Outlook (IMO) survey, which was released this morning, collected the opinions ...

Liquidity comes at a price: Certitude

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... diversified absolute return funds, often invest in strategies that are played out over several months and investors should bear this in mind."

Towers Watson expands Microsoft agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Global professional services company Towers Watson has broadened the terms of its agreement with Microsoft to adapt some software applications, develop new processes for risk-based modelling applications and increase use of cloud computing. Mark Beardall ...

New hedge fund rules for post-GFC environment

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
... role hedge funds played in precipitating the financial crisis, the first obvious signs of which were the collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds in July 2007, Australia's Basis Capital in August 2007 and a number of BNP-sponsored hedge funds in Europe ...

ISN calls for fast trading moratorium

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... proceed only after the risks have been carefully studied by ASIC, and when the benefits of technology could be brought to bear for all investors in the public interest, not just a small subset of traders, said May.