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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after US stocks gained overnight on a stronger-than-expected Midwestern business activity report. Resource stocks may decline after base metal prices declined overnight. At 0700 AEDT on the Sydney ...

JANA names new chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
JANA Investment Advisers has promoted Ian Patrick to chief executive of the firm as Ken Marshman moves to a newly-created role of head of investments outcomes. Patrick was previously a senior consultant in JANA Investment Advisers (JANA) international ...

Ken Done sues over $53m bad advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
Renowned artist Ken Done is suing his accountant, the accountancy firm, Bentley Barton & Partners and Commonwealth Bank-owned Financial Wisdom after receiving poor financial advice that cost him $53 million. Brian Fitzgerald, Commonwealth Bank spokesperson ...

MTAA awards $450m quant mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... assisted our balanced funds which have also delivered strong returns for investors over the last few years," said O'Shannassy. Ken Liow, BlackRock Australian equities chief investment officer, said attaining the MTAA Super mandate reinforced the firm's ...

Water the next competitive frontier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Treasury boss Ken Henry's speech last week continues to attract interest, especially where he argues for a huge step up in national competition policy, particularly in how we price water. "In addressing the Productivity Commission roundtable on the ...

We knew it all along: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
While Treasury boss Ken Henry long ago knew what was wrong with the economy and what problems the previous government's policies were causing, he apparently didn't have the political influence and muscle to do much about it. Speaking at the Ian Little ...

ETFs weather one-stock shocks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
According to Ord Minnett head of research and investment strategist Simon Kent-Jones, investors burnt from the Centro Properties fallout could have lessened the heartache of their losses had they invested in ETFs rather than direct company shares. "In ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... Macquarie Airports, and Macmahon Holdings Ltd. Oxiana Ltd announces its full year results. In economics, Treasury Secretary Ken Henry speaks in Melbourne, while the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the labour price index for December. On Tuesday ...

Investors swarm to Asian hedge funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
The Asian hedge funds industry continues to expand exponentially as investors flock to pour more than $12.4 billion into the market last year. New data by global hedge fund research house, Hedge Fund Research (HFR), show assets in the Asian hedge industry ...

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
An economy moving to full employment has big implications for economic policy and how we should read the macro indicators. In a major speech to the NSW Economic Society this week, Dr Steven Kennedy from the Commonwealth Treasury said while the most ...