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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open firmer as a solid lead from US stocks, firmer commodity prices and the potential for bargain hunting are expected to combine to drive the local bourse higher. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March ...

New hedge fund managers need the right skills: AIMA

The country's $22 billion hedge funds industry will continue to grow at phenomenal rates, but the challenge is to ensure new hedge fund managers have the right skills, said the Alternative Investment Management Association's (AIMA) chairman Kim Ivey. ...

Local and global equities fuel returns: SelectingSuper

Superannuation and allocated pension fund members' returns have risen in the year ended January 2006 thanks to the strength of the local equities market and the rebound of international equities. According to the latest SelectingSuper performance index ...

FuturePlus trustee gets RSE

FuturePlus Super's trustee, Chifley Financial Services, has been granted its Registrable Superannuation Entity license by APRA, ahead of the June 2006 licensing deadline. Chair of Chifley, Bernie Riordan, said the licensing process gave FuturePlus members ...

Daily economic update

... still weak? Recent reports showed that the Eurozone retail sales index fell to 49.6 in February - the lowest level since June - from 49.7 the previous month. Near record high unemployment, dearer petrol prices and now higher interest rates makes it difficult ...

Sunsuper number two departs

Sunsuper's deputy CIO has left the group after "unforeseen" management changes left the role void. Bev Durston, former deputy CIO of Sunsuper, departed the group at the end of February this year, after only 17 months in the job that she was brought ...

APRA counts licensee applicants post-deadline

As APRA's RSE licensing deadline came and went last Friday, APRA's head of public affairs, Stuart Snell, confirmed that, contrary to some industry speculation, none of the big funds have been left stranded. "All of the major funds have been accounted ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2006
The Australian share market should open firmer with a solid lead from the US coupling with a recovery in precious metal prices and some bargain hunting after a couple of days of losses. With the earnings season slowing today, with only a handful of ...

S&P and CITIC JV to ramp up Asian indices

S&P and China's leading index provider CITIC has formed a joint venture in a bid to create more benchmark indices for the Chinese securities market. The 50-50 joint venture will be named Standard & Poor's/CITIC Index Service and builds on both group's ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2006
The Australian share market should open slightly weaker, although another raft of domestic earnings should set the overall tone for the domestic bourse. US stocks are providing a slightly positive lead but weakness in base and precious metals, as well ...