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PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Citi Global Asset Management and the group's private bank division, Kelaher was exposed to funds management for the first time: "There was the legal facet, with the drafting of disclosure documents, but we would also create foreign currency products ...

Ariel makes Australia first offshore outpost

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
US all-cap and international equity manager Ariel Investments has entered the APAC region for the first time, choosing to set up shop in Sydney. As part of its APAC expansion, the company as appointed Ian Webber as senior vice president, head of Asia ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... we're happi-er. The Westpac/Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index jumped by 6.4% in May to 102.4 points - the first time since February that optimists outnumbered pessimists (above 100 points) and the highest since January 2014 - from 96.2 in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... per cent at 6,995.10 points, with gains tempered by news that British inflation fell into negative territory for the first time since 1960. In foreign exchange, the euro sank to $US1.1152 down from $US1.1315 late in New York on Monday. "Equity markets ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... day with modest gains of 0.15 per cent, after Spain enjoyed negative interest rates on its medium-term debt for the first time since a crippling economic crisis. British voters went to the polls Thursday to decide between the main rivals, Prime Minister ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... Friday had posted its official PMI at 50.1 for last month, unchanged from March when the gauge showed growth for the first time this year. WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares have retreated, as investors weighed the outlook for the energy sector. The NZX ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... from the 100.4 peak hit only last month. On the flipside, the A$ has shot up above US$0.80 overnight (US$0.8021) - the first time since January this year and is 6.5% up from the US$0.7533 touched about the same time as the greenback hit its highs in ...

PIMCO sees opportunity in EU bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... every central bank was hiking rates together. Post 2007 and 2008, every central bank was cutting rates. Now, for the first time in last five years, we're going to see different central banks doing different things," he explained. He added that this scenario ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... to 5,933.3 as energy firms were helped by higher oil prices. And Hong Kong jumped 233.28 points to 28,060.98 - the first time it has ended above 20,000 since December 2007 - boosted by ongoing hopes for more stimulus to boost the Chinese economy. WELLINGTON ...

Steady with a chance of a surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... competitiveness and profit outlook among Japanese exporters that, in turn, has the Nikkei-225 index soaring above 20,000 for the first time in 15 years. The Nikkei's up 14.7% this year to date after gaining 7.1% last year and surging by 56.7% in 2013. ...