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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... shares up three per cent and boosted the mining sector. Investors would now look to economic news from China for direction as major miners Rio Tinto and Fortescue release their production forecasts for iron ore, Austock Securities senior client adviser ...

Instos set sights on Indonesian assets

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... already being well received by its key market, Australian institutional investors, and has even piqued the interest of a major super fund. "We can offer [the super fund] investment in small and medium cap equity portfolios, because that's our competitive ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... series for December are released and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the Housing finance data for November. No major equities new is expected. In Australia, the market on Friday ended the week at its highest point this year after a round ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... Europe's woes. The market seemed unphased by the news, with ANZ shares rising 7 cents, or 0.3 per cent, to $20.85. The other major banks also gained. The biggest losers of the day were the retailers, which pushed the consumer discretionary sector down ...

Govt releases final issue of investment manager regime

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... industry associations. Martin Codina, director of policy at the Financial Services Council (FSC), commended the regime as a major step towards Australia becoming a more significant international financial centre "It is difficult to overstate the significance ...

NTEU wants changes at UniSuper trustee company

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... diversity of investment and superannuation product options, and very low administration costs." The union also acknowledges the major problem is not management per se but the pressure sustained poor capital market performance has put on the fund's DB ...

CFSGAM: REITS are a safe bet

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... underlying earnings of most of the property companies globally, earnings and cash flow have been resilient. There hasn't been any major downturn. According to Plater, the problem has been that people are looking at the direction a lot of Real Estate ...

2011: hits and misses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... as both the bears and the bulls have convincing rationales to peddle their viewpoints. This early in the New Year, most major equity markets are already moving in the right direction - posting positive performances. And why not? While we know all too ...

RREEF Infrastructure acquires Aus gas interest

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... interest in the Brisbane gas distribution business ALLGAS from APA Group. The acquisition was made on behalf of one of RREEF's major Australian institutional clients. As part of the same transaction, Marubeni Corporation will also acquire a 40% interest ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... banks and fears that France may soon follow sent offshore bourses tumbling overnight. Ratings agency Fitch has downgraded major banks Credit Agricole and Rabobank on the back of escalating problems in Europe. Others, including France's Banque Federative ...