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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
The Australian market has flat to mixed negative leads from offshore trading overnight. The Dow ended higher, but Wall Streets's other key indices were lower, as were European and Asian markets in Wednesday trade. Precious metals were higher, but oil ...

Year of the Rabbit, year of acquisitions: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
Seven out of 10 investment analysts are bullish about the prospects of Asian companies this year and expect many of these cashed-up businesses to grow through acquisitions and palm excess cash as higher dividends to shareholders, a survey found. The ...

Pinnacle nabs former Wilson HTM head of wealth mgmt

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
Alex Ihlenfeldt, former head of wealth management for Wilson HTM Investment Group, has joined Pinnacle Investment Management as chief operating officer to build growth opportunities for fund managers. Ihlenfeldt has over ten years experience with Wilson ...

Aus equities forecast to return 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
The S&P/ASX200 index, currently sitting at around 4,800 points, could reach 6,000 this year, company director and well-regarded economist Don Stammer told the audience of last week's Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum. The 20-per cent plus upside ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
It's good in so far as it's bad. For those like me who logged on over the weekend hoping to glean clarity on America's future, the latest non-farm payrolls report outing provided none. Yes, Virginia, both the bulls and the bears would be claiming, "I ...

USA is going A-OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
"Until we see a sustained period of stronger job creation, we cannot consider the recovery to be truly established." These were the words spoken by Big Ben at the National Press Club in Washington last night. Oh yes, these very words came out of his ...

Whatever the question, the answer is China

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
This week's Financial Standard chief economist breakfast forum heard that no matter what the economic question, the answer always seems to be China and how we seize it's opportunities, contain its inflation threats and redirect its capital flows. The ...

One voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
ust as recent indicators point to a brightening outlook for the US economy, the haze appears to also be slowly dissipating in Europe. "Movin' on up, movin' on up. Movin' on up, movin on up." This tune by M People played in my head as I read Bloomberg's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Streets's key indices flat while commodities also were mixed. On the ASX 24 at 0820 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was two points higher at ...

Large funds use scale to boost after-tax savings

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
An after-tax optimisation tool available to super funds called 'propagation' is proving too expensive to run in practice and, at current prices, is only cost-effective for multi-billion super funds, research shows. In its paper, Towers Watson studied ...