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Morningstar nabs senior equity analyst from J.P. Morgan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
Research house Morningstar has appointed a director of equity research to its Australian and New Zealand business. Carolyn Holmes joins the company from J.P. Morgan where she was most recently an executive director and senior equity analyst. Before ...

Shares increasingly popular for Gen Y

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... share trading and economic developments in Australia over the last two decades, finding investors are entering the sharemarket at an earlier age. CommSec managing director, Paul Rayson, said 20 years ago the majority of investors in the market were aged ...

The "old economy" that is Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... (SMH) yesterday. The heading says it all really: "Apple, Google and Microsoft explain the problem with Australia's sharemarket". Yes Virginia, the mammoths of the tech world have joined in the "bash Australia" crowd. There's something wrong with our ...

Retiring 'comfortably may require 3 income building blocks: Legg Mason

PROMOTED BY LEGG MASON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... 2.55%, according to the RBA. To put this into context, this income loss dwarfs the biggest ever fall in the Australian sharemarket - 54% during the GFC - and this ignores the fast recovery of shares and a franking boost. Furthermore, if you strip away ...

Australian market set for further falls

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
Investors are bracing for further slides on the Australian sharemarket as Greece heads towards a default on its debt that could lead to its exit from the eurozone. The futures market suggests the S&P ASX/200 will open around 0.6 per cent lower on Tuesday ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... to close at 27,280.54 and Shanghai added 0.87 per cent, or 44.76 points, to 5,166.35. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket has closed lower, after offshore investors sold blue chip equities such as Spark New Zealand and Fletcher Building. The NZX ...

Rising bond yields a blip

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... yields have probably risen too far," Roberts said. "It also implies that the downward correction in the Australian sharemarket, driven substantially by falls in high-yielding bank shares, may have pushed too far as well in our view, especially if Australian ...

Australian market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... points, to 2,072.86. WELLINGTON - A strong gain by leading stock Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has helped the New Zealand sharemarket's benchmark index close slightly higher. The NZX 50 Index rose 6.735 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 5865.441 on Thursday.

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... stronger yen makes Japanese exporters less competitive against their international rivals. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket has closed lower, as investors pocketed some windfall gains in Z Energy. The NZX 50 Index slipped 5.037 points, or 0.1 ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... points, to close at 27,466.72 and Seoul fell 1.13 per cent, or 23.73 points, to 2,078.64. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket has closed higher, with Z Energy spiking 22 per cent and Spark New Zealand adding to recent gains. The NZX 50 Index rose ...