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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
... Industry Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers releases its performance of manufacturing index for July. In equities news, Great Western Exploration and King Solomon Mines are scheduled to hold annual general meetings. The Australian market on Tuesday closed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... AEST after the environmental authority said it supports Aquila's proposed port for its $6 billion iron ore project in Western Australia's Pilbara region. The big miners and the four major banks were all higher. BHP Billiton was up 29 cents to $31.92 ...

NGS Super moves into Qld, WA

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
NGS Super will increase its presence in Queensland and Western Australia, with two new business development managers hired to help drive the expansion. The fund is positioning itself to grow so it can achieve the size and economy of scale necessary ...

Wen's visible hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... half-Chinese long enough to understand this. The problem with all those hard landing forecasters is that they view China through western eyes. Unlike western democracies, whose governments rely on what Adam Smith termed the "invisible hand": that is ...

Older investors dumping equities

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... Equity Preference Index (EPI) - developed by Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) and the University of Western Australia Business School - measures a database of managed fund data to gauge investor sentiment in Australia. "The index ...

Premium China expands distribution team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... and high return with no gearing, no shorting and no collateral debt obligations, according to Wu. "Because of the fact Western economies have interest rates close to zero, if there is any actual interest rate increase, because of the yield curve bond ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... Commissioner of Taxation Michael D'Ascenzo is scheduled to speak at an Institute of Company Directors Lunch in Hobart, while Western Australian Treasurer and Attorney General Christian Porter are to address a FINSIA lunch in Perth. In Australia, the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... after it won a $71.7 million contract to install power lines and substations at BHP Billiton's Jimblebar iron ore mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region. Media publisher Fairfax was 3.5 cents lower at 61.5 cents, 24 hours after it announced it would ...

Shareholder backlash hits Macquarie MGU

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
Western Investment LLC, a large shareholder in Macquarie Global Infrastructure Total Return Fund, has publicly criticised the fund's board of directors, claiming they are failing to act in shareholders' best interests. Western Investment (Western) is ...

UBS expands wholesale team

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... responsible for clients in Victoria and South Australia while Tomkins will have responsibility for clients in Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania. Dunne joins UBS Global Asset Management following six years as a national sales manager at BT Investment ...