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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... cent-plus plunge on Thursday, following the US Federal Reserve's plan to end by mid-2014 its $US85 billion-a-month quantitative easing measures. The Australian market has recovered from steeper opening dips but RBS Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell ...

Man Group hires former JP Morgan MD as CEO

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... responsibility for giving local and international investors access to Man's range of products, including the suite of quantitative AHL strategies, the range of GLG alternative and long-only discretionary strategies and Man's fund of hedge fund offering ...

State Street appoints head of active investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... This reflects a move to bring all fixed income classes under one management umbrella. SSgA will also combine active quantitative developed and enhanced equity under Ted Gekas, who will take on the role of CIO and global head of active quantitative equity. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... bond-buying program some time later this year and bring the operation to a close by mid-2014. The stimulus, known as quantitative easing, or QE, not only boosts America's debt-ridden economy, but is a major influence on share market activity around the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... yen. Wall Street again provided a healthy cue, with investors betting the Fed will stop short of reeling in its "quantitative easing" (QE) bond-buying program. Tokyo added 1.83 per cent, or 237.94 points, to 13,245.22. But Seoul lost 0.65 per cent, or ...

End of QE sounds death knell for 'zombie' stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
The tapering of quantitative easing (QE) will burst the bubble in high-yielding 'zombie' stocks, according to UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank's James Humphreys. Stimulus measures by central banks in Europe, the US and Japan have propped up global ...

Aust shares weaken ahead of RBA minutes

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... themselves for news this week on whether the US Federal Reserve will pare its third round of bond buying, known as quantitative easing. Meanwhile, Elders' shares have dived 10 per cent, or 0.9 cents, to 8.1 cents, after emerging from a trading halt with ...

No need to fear 1994-style crash

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... right, and there is no need to fear a 1994-style crash in bonds, according to Fidelity Worldwide Investment head of quantitative research David Buckle. Global bonds and equity markets have shown signs of stress following Federal Reserve chairman Ben ...

Aust shares weaken ahead of US Fed meeting

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... in negative territory. RBS Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said speculation about the American central bank's quantitative easing policy, ahead of its meeting this week, was causing the Australian market to follow Wall Street's weak lead. "That's ...

Fracking shock in store for US

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... sell-off in recent weeks as global equity investors consider the impact of a possible Federal Reserve pull back from quantitative easing. However, Beazley, who's business is focused principally in the Japanese market and has no US-focused portfolios ...