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CBA awards $200m mandate to London manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
Commonwealth Bank has awarded a $200 million global equity mandate to a London-based fund manager. Ardevora Asset Management is an equity specialist with US$1.5 billion in assets under management that runs four equity strategies: global long-only, global ...

Majority wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... clap, claps are in order for the six sages (out of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg) who correctly anticipated the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) verdict to cut interest rates by 25 bps to a historic low 2.25% yesterday. They're heroes! So much ...

Market Wrap AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after the Reserve Bank cut interest rates to a new record low and oil prices rebounded. At 0837 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 97 points at 5,740. Consumers are waiting ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
The Australian stock market is higher amid growing expectations the Reserve Bank of Australia will cut interest rates. The market is more than half a per cent higher, following strong gains from Wall Street and rising oil prices overnight. IG market ...

Naos adds portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... a positive impact on our investments." Prior to joining Naos, Rundle worked in the research and sales team at investment bank Moelis & Company. Before that he was an analyst within the Macquarie Group.

When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... five-year growth rates of 10.5 per cent and 16.5 per cent respectively. The fifth panelist Saul Eslake, chief economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, wrapped up the forum with more local analysis, starting with terms of trade figures to interest ...

Taylor rules the RBA just right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
Go ahead Glenn, make our day! That's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens to us, thank you very much and the day... the day is the Australian central bank's first meeting for 2015. Despite "Roubini Global urges RBA to hold interest ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 42 points at 5,613. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its monthly board meeting and makes interest rate decision. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...

CBA is top banking brand for 2014

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is the country's highest-value banking brand for 2014, according to the Brand Finance Banking 500 study. Despite a year of controversy surrounding its financial planning division, the bank has retaken the number ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... up 33.5 cents, or 2.5 per cent, to $13.895. The banks were mixed. Commonwealth rose 31 cents to $89.64, National Australia Bank had dropped seven cents to $35.56, ANZ added 21 cents to $33.21 and Westpac was 19 cents higher at $34.65. JB Hi-Fi shares ...