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Hyperion expands investment team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
Boutique Australian equities manager, Hyperion Asset Management appointed Jason Orthman as senior investment analyst. Orthman previously worked at Wilson HTM Investment Group as a senior research analyst covering the mid cap industrial sector. He will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to fall after US equities slumped on readings on jobs and manufacturing which indicated that businesses and workers still face a tough economy. The miners may decline as metals including gold and copper slipped ...

US growth disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... market's performance continues to be dictated by the inflow of economic indicators during this data-filled week. Australian equities, in turn, dance to its tune. The local bourse maintained its gains at the close of yesterday's trading following Wall ...

Westscheme shakes up portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
The $2.92 billion Westscheme has rejigged its cash, Australian equities and emerging markets exposures among others after a review of its investment strategy. For the first time since March 2006, the Westscheme Trustee Board altered the strategic asset ...

Former Invesco duo harvest good returns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
It has been over a year since Australian equities heavyweights Rohan Walsh and Luke Sinclair left Invesco for Karara Capital. The market timing may have been off but the pair still proved their mettle judging by their debut returns in their new home. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... share price index futures contract fell 94 points, or 1.87 per cent, to 4888 on a volume of 15,024 contracts. Macquarie Equities associate director Lucinda Chan said bad news from the banks was hurting the market. "ANZ had a negative forecast this morning ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
The Australian equities made it through a volatile morning to be slightly up at noon, but metals, mining, energy, materials and IT capped any major gains. In the US overnight major indices rose moderately although the NASDAQ climbed nearly one per cent ...

REST terminates GMO

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
The $14 billion REST Superannuation has axed an Australian Equities mandate with GMO due to concerns with the fund manager's team changes. According to Damian Hill, chief executive of REST Superannuation, the super fund ended a four year relationship ...

NZX plugs into SWIFTNet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... head of IT projects, said the messaging platform was chosen by NZX because it changed its settlement arrangements for equities and debt products to use central bank funds and it needed to interact with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. In addition, NZX ...

BGI targets adviser iShare apathy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... "Typically the dealer groups from a software perspective they've been awfully good at managed funds but awfully bad at direct equities," said Seccombe. "Since the ETF trades like a direct equity [financial planners] haven't been the earliest of adopters ...