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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... volume of 15,915 contracts. CMC Markets senior dealer Matthew Lewis said the flagging price of base metals were having a major influence on the local bourse today. "Not surprisingly, the market is exceptionally weaker today, considering the weak lead ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... worried that the global economy is poised to weaken even as parts of the credit market slowly show signs of recovery. The major indices fell more than five per cent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 514.45 points, or 5.69, to 8,519.21 and the ...

Period of cleansing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... the state of play in the financial markets for a while. Unless one or two governments or central banks somewhere commits a major policy blunder, the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) believes that the sell-off in the equity markets may have ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... index slid 30.35 points, 3.08 per cent, to 955.05. Most of the falls came in the last 45 minutes of trading. Until then, the major indices were down about 0.6 per cent. LONDON - European stock markets had a mixed performance on Tuesday, with the FTSE ...

TAAM wins $100m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... According to Sheldon Rivers, general manager of TAAM, the boutique manager's chief investment officer Peter Satori played a major role in securing the mandate. "Peter Satori, our CIO, has previously managed European mandates for pension funds such as ...

Search for equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... future holds. And so they should be. Last week's economic data releases provided more evidence that most of the world's major economies are already in recession and some have one foot in the grave. In the US, September housing starts fell to their level ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... up 400 and it was just a function of volatility. "I think the people with the money had all the fun." Mr Smith said the major banks were fairing the worst. "In the coming week we've got NAB and ANZ reporting," Mr Smith said. "What are they going to say ...

Fees cause underperformance, not asset allocation: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
The latest research paper from APRA confirms that fees are the major difference in net returns between retail and not-for-profit super funds, not asset allocation or differences in account balances. The paper, Investment Performance, Asset Allocation ...

No instant gratification

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... point. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Janet Yellen underscored this point remarking that, 'Virtually every major sector of the economy has been hit by the financial shock...The US economy appears to be in a recession.' The Dow Jones ...

Matrix Planning Solutions restructures

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
Independently owned dealer group Matrix Planning Solutions Limited has shuffled its managerial line up following the shelving of its plans to be publicly listed. MPS had flagged its intention to be publicly listed 12 months ago but the majority of its ...