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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after US stocks rose sharply on the latest Chinese stimulus measures and some prominent earnings that bested forecasts. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 37 points ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Impressive! Nah Virginia, I refer not to the big bouncy bouncy Wall Street and European equity markets did last night - which almost instantaneously affirmed the rant I scribbled on this space yesterday that "the bad and the bad and the bad" that spooked ...

Northern Trust appoints former BlackRock vice president

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... sales associate for Northern Trust's asset servicing business in Melbourne. President of Northern Trust Asset Management, Steve Potter, said the company will offer its customised asset management solutions to institutional investors. Northern Trust first ...

FEATURE: How boutiques got their groove back

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Hamish Douglass, Roger Montgomery, Kerr Neilson, David Paradice, Tim Samway, John Sevior, Anton Tagliaferro, Geoff Wilson. These are some of the leading lights in the local investment market. What they all have in common is finding huge amounts of success ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
Crrr-unch! That's the sound of China's trade numbers collapsing. And it was a thunderous thud, Virginia. The country's trade surplus shrank to US$3.08 billion in March from $60.6 bil in February and expectations for a US$40 bil print. With imports dropping ...

Strike three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
It's a hat trick. It's three for three. Three times that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) wrong-footed market expectations. Governor Glenn Stevens cut interest rates by 25 basis points to a record low 2.25% back in February when markets expected ...

Maritime Super appoints independent director

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
Maritime Super has appointed a high profile independent director to its board. Lynelle Briggs is an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia and has held senior government and executive positions, including chief executive of Medicare ...

Vertically-integrated advice model can work

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
Despite recent controversies, vertical integration can work if implemented properly, according to Australian Bankers' Association chief executive Steven MA1/4nchenberg. Speaking at the ASIC Annual Forum, MA1/4nchenberg said that conflicts were inherent ...

Another cut's in the mail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
Disappointment over the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision not to cut interest rates at its 3 March Board meeting reversed the Australian equity market's sharp uptrend that started in the middle of January. The All Ords dropped from a high of ...

US bond investors fund Australian wind farm

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015