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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
The Australian share market has touched a new intraday high in early trade, with the big miners and banks in positive territory after the Easter long weekend. At 1015 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 Index was 34.1 points higher at 6,111.20, reaching ...

Global economy usurps local risks

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
... element in isolation. "Things people are getting concerned about are regional or sector based in nature - in practice you worry about that a lot less if you take the border away and worry about it in a global context," he said. "What we've got now is ...

Private equity everywhere: CHAMP

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
Private equity players are now rightfully an integral part of any deal in Australia, big or small, according to Nat Childers, director of CHAMP Private Equity. Addressing attendees at the 2007 Asian Private Equity and Venture Forum, Childers painted ...

Everything old is new again, now: Schroders

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
Investors would do well to get back to the basics of investing, according to Schroders, with head of Australian equities, Martin Conlon, arguing the focus on 'new' asset classes and an obsession with headline data and forecasting has led some to forget ...

MIA predicts property slump by 2010

... is holding up well with returns in the 12 months to September 30 2006 ranging from 23.21 per cent to 29.1 per cent. The worry is that these numbers may be underpinned largely by 'paper' capital returns, as opposed to regular income, which won't be there ...

Private equity spree hurting managers: Suncorp

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
... an analyst here [at Suncorp] is you pick five or six really good positive excess returns companies and you don't have to worry about the underweights. "Now they [the analysts] have to be more careful because the big underweights can suddenly jump 20-30 ...

Wealth managers will have difficulty with AML

WWW.THESHEET.COM.AU  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2006
The financial services organisations that will struggle most with the introduction of anti-money laundering programs are those that may otherwise be least affected by it - the life companies and investment managers in the wealth management sector. Steve ...

Fix debt ahead of rate rise: ANZFP

... is, it won't and there's certainly evidence of that and they [interest rates] are going to go up now." Goodall said it's a worry when the debt has come from luxury expenses such as plasma TVs, high-tech sound systems or towards funding a better lifestyle. ...

Funds must make it easier to amalgamate small accounts: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
... added that, "Sometimes the forms they have to fill in to amalgamate these sums [are too complex] - and Generation Y don't worry about forms." The Treasurer also said any transactional costs need to be he minimised. Costello, however, warned that if the ...

Investor optimism index down 43 per cent

... UBS/Gallup findings are data from US households and are therefore a stronger indicator of investor behaviour. More than 9 in 10 worry about high fuel prices while 7 in 10 said real estate conditions are getting worse. A high 7 out of 10 are also worried ...