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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... were firmer, with Santos jumping 18 cents, or 1.11 per cent, to $16.36, Woodside up 42 cents to $47.37, and Oil Search gaining five cents to $7.33. Market heavyweights BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto lost ground. BHP Billiton eased 35 cents to $47.33 and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... were buoyed by strong jobs figures out of the United States that suggested recovery in the world's biggest economy was gaining traction. But despite recent gains since the March 11 quake and tsunami in Japan, concerns linger over the crisis at the Fukushima ...

Wingate profits from Everest stake

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... Investments has sold its 19.9 per cent investment in Everest Financial Group after receiving an anonymous bid for its stake, gaining 32 per cent on its original investment. The investment manager offloaded its stake in Everest during its wind down, something ...

Inflation fears raise appeal of alternative assets

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... wealth funds move to protect themselves against inflation. Inflation and its potential effect on institutional investing is gaining influence as strategic longer term view investors begin to define in their asset allocation some defensive pockets, protecting ...

Fund managers to face new norm in liquidity

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... choose carefully who they execute trades with. Ben Valentine, head of electronic execution sales for Asia, Citi, said gaining access to liquidity remains the greatest challenge to clients. As the market fragments and alternative venues, such as Chi-X ...

AXA Aus preps for next phase of North

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
AXA Australia will soon release the next generation of its successful North platform, gaining support from merger partner AMP. A broad range of licensees currently uses the North platform, launched in 2007, with the platform's funds under management ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... Madrid bourses made very small losses, 0.07 per cent and 0.03 per cent respectively while Milan bucked the trend, just, gaining 0.03 per cent. HONG KONG - Asian stock markets suffered sharp falls on Monday, with rising oil prices hurting overall sentiment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... (1.84 per cent) at 2,798.74. The market jump came as new data releases strengthened the view that the economic recovery is gaining pace. The government reported that initial jobless claims dropped to 368,000 in the week ending February 26, the lowest ...

MLC program attracts new planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... field such as bankers, lawyers and asset managers, is a four-day course that compliments individuals in the process of gaining their RG146 qualifications and want to make the move into financial planning. Peter Greenaway, MLC general manager of business ...

ASIC brings charges against Opes Prime chief

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... companies, with the regulator alleging that on 20 March 2008, Opes Prime directors signed documentation with ANZ Bank, gaining a term loan for Opes Prime Stockbroking and its parent company, Opes Prime Group, pledging the companies' assets as security ...