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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower after US equities declined on a disappointing result at Microsoft Corp and increasing concerns about America's banks. At 0804 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 24 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... Consumer Inflationary Expectations and, with Westpac, its Survey of Consumer Unemployment Expectations, both for January. In equities news, Woodside Petroleum fourth quarter and annual production report, gold miner Newcrest Mining releases its second ...

End 'set and forget' strategy: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... circumstances," he said. "Prior to the beginning of 2008, financial advisers had portfolios that consisted of Australian equities and listed property trusts which had previously done well, but this is a completely different environment so advisers need ...

Legalsuper members favour Aussie shares

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... are down, according to legalsuper chief executive Andrew Proebstl. Legalsuper members' heightened interest in Aussie equities reflects similar sentiment across the investment industry, including fund managers and asset consultants. Yesterday, top performing ...

Confidence yardstick rises

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... sharemarkets rose for the first time in six months, with US institutional investors the most bullish about the performance of equities. The findings came from the State Street Investor Confidence index, a monthly index that measures the selling and buying ...

VFMC restructures investment teams

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
The $36 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) is combining its quantitative and equities team into a single entity as part of a sweeping reorganisation of the fund. VFMC chief executive and director Sydney Bone said the group is "reorganising ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
The Australian stock market is likely to fall after US equities slumped more than three per cent on renewed concerns that problems in the banking industry aren't over. At 0830 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March Share Price Index futures ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
The Australian stock market was 3.4 per cent lower at noon after falls in European equities and declining commodity prices overnight dragged the local bourse lower. At 1205 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 124.9 points, or 3.48 per cent lower at 3464.4 ...

Legg Mason expands team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
Legg Mason Australian Equities has appointed ex-Citigroup small cap expert Julian Mulcahy as portfolio manager and research analyst for Australian small companies. Mulcahy will focus his efforts on listed Australian companies that fall outside the S&P/ASX ...

Pinnacle taps private equity demand

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... with Cook and Ludemann's recruitment, came less than a year after Pinnacle added Solaris, run by the former Australian equities team of Suncorp, headed by well-known fund manager Denis Donohue. "Our business is to know who's who in the investment world ...