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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
Disappointing US jobs data and lower base metals prices dragged the Australian share market lower in opening trade, with all sectors of the local market losing ground. At 1013 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 20.5 points lower at 4562.6, while ...

MLC appoints Schroders global equities manager

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
MLC Investment Management will continue to focus on the "manager of manager approach" after installing Jonathan Armitage as portfolio manager, global equities, joining from Schroders in London. Armitage, who joins the company on August 1, will report ...

BT targets advisers with contribution tracker

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... a glance, their client's super contribution position for the current financial year and up to the past five years," said Nick Bowley, head of product, BT Wrap. The importance of lodging all concessional and non-concessional contributions for the previous ...

Speed bumps to annuities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... generation of lifetime annuity with AXA, Macquarie and OnePath entering the fray when it launched variable annuity-style products. Nick Callil, a Towers Watson researcher on longevity risk, said that since the Cooper recommendations threw the spotlight ...

Dealer groups stay with Japan, eye opportunities

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... international exposure to strategic trusts, and that basically sits our current exposure at about 9.6 per cent to Japan," said Nick Bedding, chief executive, Shadforth, who said the dealer group does not have any direct Japanese funds on its APL. Bedding ...

NAB buys 35pc stake in AREA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... has investments including a string of shopping centres in Poland, the Pascale Tower in Paris and nursing homes in Germany. Nick Basile, investment director at nabInvest said the markets had been short of investment funds, leaving an opening for a profitable ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
The Australian sharemarket continued to ease at noon, restrained by banking major ANZ on a poorly received trading update. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 5.5 points at 4,932.9, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 3.2 points ...

Bank lends aid to fin planning businesses

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... extend loan facilities and raise new cash to fund acquisitions and new equity participations. A spokesman for St. George, Nick Rainsford, said that the bank had been receiving a lot of recent enquiries from former CBA customers and it was eager to continue ...

Plum pickings in international equities: K2

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
K2 Asset Management's head of international strategy Nick Griffin believes that a maturing economic recovery will fuel earnings growth and higher international equity prices in 2011. Griffin said that equity valuations remain compelling, in both absolute ...

Shadforth unveils acquisition strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... generate its own investment growth strategy. "We have three main areas that we are aiming to build the business on," said Nick Bedding, chief executive at Shadforth. "That is refining and enhancing our service offering for existing clients as we see ...