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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... Corp dragged down the financial sector, overshadowing strong gains in energy companies as oil closed at a record. Goldman Sachs added to the market's negative tone after it said the quarterly earnings season, which is just starting, looks "awful" and ...

Raising stakes in charity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... alternatives. Cuffe will receive investment and strategy advice pro bono from industry veterans including Frank Macindoe, Goldman Sachs JBWere's director of private wealth; Robert Keavney, Centric Wealth Advisers chief investment officer; and Doug McTaggart ...

Perpetual offers low cost Gift Fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
... concessions and receive refunds from franking credits on dividends. Catherine Baldwin, Perpetual Foundation head said Goldman Sachs offered a similar product, however Perpetual's Gift Fund was a price competitive, simpler solution. "Rather than giving ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... 6,000-mark to hit its highest closing level in five weeks, helped by bid talk around British Energy and an upbeat Goldman Sachs note on miners. The FTSE 100 closed up 67.7 points, 1.14 per cent at 6,014.8, closing above the 6,000 level for the first ...

Credit Suisse buys AXE stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... broker matches buyers and sellers within the pool of members. Credit Suisse joins Citi, Commonwealth Securities, Goldman Sachs JBWere, Macquarie, Merrill Lynch and NZX as shareholders in AXE ECN. Collectively the firms account for more than 40 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... analyst Juliette Saly said the US market had been pleasantly surprised by better than expected earnings results from Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. "Lehman Brothers particularly turned financial stocks around on Wall Street," Ms Saly said. "We were ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... 3.5 per cent higher as the prospect of a hefty US rate cut and forecast-beating results from Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs calmed shaken investors. The FTSE 100 closed at 5,605.8 points, up 191.4 or 3.54 per cent. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended ...

Attack of the hedge clones

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... tools or "clones" permeate through the sector to deliver returns at the fraction of traditional costs. Banking giant Goldman Sachs spearheaded the cloning phenomenon in 2006 when it created a hedge fund replication tool that charged a flat fee of 1 per ...

Opes Prime boosts corporate governance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... to her appointment, Kane was head of compliance for Morgan Stanley and previously held senior compliance roles at Goldman Sachs JBWere, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan. Julian Smith, director and co-founder of Opes Prime, said Kane's appointment will compliment ...

Property back to fair value

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... crashing down [following the recent stock market and credit crashes]," said Andrew Cooke, chief investment officer of Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management. "Despite the weakness in the market we think they've gone from very expensive to fair value," ...