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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... There was little action in economic news -- a September reading on personal spending and income from the US Commerce Department was in line with expectations. The bond market rallied. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 2.31 per cent from 2.40 ...

DHS to takeover early super release on compassionate grounds

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... structural shake-up of the early release of superannuation benefits on specified compassionate grounds. From next month, the Department of Human Services (DHS) will take over the administration of the payments from Medicare/DHS, who have carried out ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... Statistics releases the Labour force for September data, while Reserve Bank of Australia's Head of Financial Stability Department Luci Ellis addresses the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality Annual Conference. In equities news, the Bank of Queensland ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... than analysts anticipated, but not enough to lower the unemployment rate stuck at 9.1 per cent for three months. The department revised upward the two previous months' job creation numbers, indicating that employment in the faltering economy had more ...

UBS retains OptiMix as it closes ING IM deal

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
UBS Global Asset Management is retaining ownership of multi manager fund-of-funds business OptiMix as it completes its acquisition of ING Investment Management, although ANZ owns its money. UBS closed the acquisition yesterday and a spokesperson told ...

Some hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... is needed to stabilise the eurozone." At least there was some hopeful news out of the US last night. The US Commerce Department revised up second quarter real GDP to an annualised growth rate of 1.3% -- a bit better than market expectations for a 1.2% ...

Strong culture drives T. Rowe Price

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... "If I had to rename my title to anything, it would probably be the chief culture officer, at least for the equities department," Stromberg told Financial Standard. He explained that if he does that well, all of T. Rowe Price's fund managers can "shine" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... economic activity in the eurozone hit reverse in September for the first time in more than two years. The US Labor Department said new initial jobless claims dropped last week, but remained at the painfully high level of 423,000, reflecting the persistent ...

US adviser fiduciary rule stalls

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
Concerns that the US Department of Labor's new definition of fiduciary duty for financial advisers is too demanding has prompted the retirement savings regulator to re-initiate industry discussions, a process that some believe may take up to two years. ...

IMF says prepare to buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... 2008 - down 37.5% for the year. 8 July 2009. Olivier Blanchard, Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Research Department, predicted that, "our forecast for world output is for a decline of 1.4 percent in 2009 and for an increase of 2.5 percent ...