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The Celtic Tiger gets back its roar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
It's beginning to sound like a broken record ever since the Dow broke its 2007 record on the 5th of March 2013...and talks about the Dow are yet to stop - whether it'll continue heading higher, consolidate or reverse at some point. Guilty, your honour! ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
The Australian market is set for a flat start despite an unexpectedly strong increase in US consumer spending in February. Wall Street rose slightly, its ninth straight session of gains. At 0800 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures ...

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... helping his impoverished political base". And why not? The Venezuelan economy has grown faster than its bigger Latin American neighbours, Brazil and Mexico. Latest available figures show Venezuela's GDP expanded by 5.2% in the year to the third quarter ...

Can't help falling in love with stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
"Sing Hallelujah! Sing it Sing Hallelujah! Sing it, yeah Sing Hallelujah!" -- 'Sing Hallelujah' by Dr. Alban They're dancing and singing on the streets - Wall Street, that is -- for the Dow Jones Industrials Index has officially closed at an all-time ...

Latin American pension funds eye PE

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Regulation governing South American pension funds investing in private equity is becoming less strict, which make it more likely for limited partners in the region to become active investors in the coming years, investment research house Preqin said. ...

Water scarcity a factor for resource fund managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... growing, according to Lourey. Moody's report states that large mining companies such as Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Anglo American are and will continue to be adversely affected given their global footprints and willingness to operate in the most remote ...

Hastings appoints executive director for North America

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... Andrew Day said. "Hastings has a history of investing in North America, having long recognized the importance of the North American market and the attractive opportunities it presents in the infrastructure sector." Commenting on her new role, Mavroyannis ...

Beans means Buffet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... compiled by Bloomberg." (Bloomberg). Investors remain rationally exuberant - they're not overly bullish...yet. The latest American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) investor sentiment survey, dated 13 February 2013, showed that only 42.3% of ...

Super tax concessions not overly generous: Mercer

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... Australia. It shows the net retirement benefits for an average British worker would be 16.4%, or $43,534 higher, while an American worker would be 11%, or $29,273 higher than their Australian counterpart. "The taxation treatment of superannuation may ...

Confident Instos return to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... research arm of the financial services giant, said that the increase was driven by a 7.8 point increase in confidence among American institutions. Institutional investors in Asia also showed renewed optimism, pushing the local index up 3.9 points. Strong ...