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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
The Australian equities market was up at noon on the back of financials, property trusts and healthcare, although the utility and gold sectors played laggards. At 1205 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 69.9 points, or 1.38 per cent to 5136.4, while ...

Future Fund is $652m richer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... tumultuous period. "The positive result in the current investment environment reflects our decision to slow the purchase of equities in the first half of the year due to concerns about pricing. This allowed us to benefit from a substantial cash component ...

Credit Suisse nabs AMF stake

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
... billion. AMF's investments are diversified across various asset classes including emerging markets, large and small cap equities, real estate, currency, timber and wealth management. The firm's capital has been by clients for internal equity transfers ...

Serious about planning: Health Super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
... owned by Health Super, although it provides advice beyond traditional fund member requirements and ventures into direct equities, wholesale managed funds, and risk solutions.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
... on a volume of 15,530 contracts. ABN Amro private client adviser Bill Bishop said there had been broad gains in local equities during morning trade. "The banks are up and the resources are leading the charge," he said. "We had quite a reasonable lead ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... September share price index contract was one point lower at 4985 on a volume of 13,982 contracts. ABN Amro director of equities Bill Chatterton said as the reporting season was coming to an end, there was not one significant driver for local equities ...

Challenger and AXA sign up to Liquidnet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... resulting in enhanced quality trade execution and lower overall trading costs," he said. Transaction sizes in Asia Pacific equities in July averaged $1.8 million compared to roughly $12,400 on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Liquidnet's global ...

QIC's new asset class a hot commodity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... a separate class in its portfolios after it observed that traditionally uncorrelated markets such as fixed income and equities are starting to behave like each other. The QIC Red Paper found although fixed interest and equity market assets are historically ...

US and Aus open equities borders

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... that may allow brokers from both regions to only comply with their home country regulation when trading Australian or US equities. The groundbreaking deal could further ease cross-border trading and means brokers reduce their compliance costs as they ...

Challenger buys 30pc stake in ex-CS boutique

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... boutique said in a statement. Challenger has also made a 27.5 per cent acquisition of WaveStone Capital, an Australian equities hedge fund boutique business headed by ex- Colonial First State head of Australian equities, Ian Harding. The fund manager ...