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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
The Australian stock market has received a positive set of leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street trading higher and oil and metals prices firmer. At 0835 AEDT, the June share price index contract was up 19 points at 4,689 points, on volume of ...

AMP Capital to recruit in infrastructure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
AMP Capital Brookfield plans to bring new blood into its listed infrastructure team following the resignation of a portfolio manager and analyst. Manoj Patel, a co-portfolio manager, covering US pipelines and India, and analyst Ryan Foelske will both ...

AIA raises US$20.5bn in IPO

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
AIA's long awaited IPO was a resounding success last week, with US$20.5 billion raised in the share sale to retail and insititutional investors, making it the third largest IPO in history, and the largest ever for the Hong Kong market. Investors scrambled ...

TAAM adds to investment team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
Senior investment analyst Kenneth Wan will be joining the investment team of Treasury Asia Asset Management (TAAM), the boutique manager announced this morning. Wan brings ten years funds management experience in both Australian and Asian equities to ...

Singapore makes $8.4bn grab for ASX

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
The Singapore stock exchange, SGX, has made an $8.4 billion bid for the ASX - a move that could see Australia's major exchange become a mere divisional office to Singapore's, if the deal receives regulatory approval. Australian Securities Exchange shareholders ...

UK fast tracks pension reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
The UK government has brought forward plans to raise the retirement age and increased the contributions public sector employees must pay to fund their retirements. Chancellor George Osborne announced overnight that the pension age will rise to 66 by ...

TAAM attracts top Asia guns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Boutique fund manager Treasury Asia Asset Management has appointed leading contrarian investor Marc Faber and one of Singapore's most successful fund managers, Teng Ngiek-Lian, to its investment advisory board. Faber, author of "The Gloom Boom & Doom ...

CB thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
"But where do you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed Tell me the thoughts that surround you I want to look inside your head, yes I do." -- Peter Sarstedt We, mere mortals, watching the financial market's daily gyrations and the regular drip ...

Sustainable investing gathers steam in Europe

NEWS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
The share of sustainable investments in European High Net Worth Individuals' (HNWIs) portfolios has increased since the GFC, a news study has found. Sustainable investments now account for approximately 11 per cent of Europeam HNWI's portfolio's, or ...

Thousands rally against Sarkozy

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
A French protest rally involving hundreds of thousands of French nationals marched the streets of Paris and beyond in protest to proposed retirement age changes. Thousands marched through over 130 towns and cities in a united protest against President ...