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Australian family businesses lag global counterparts

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
The performance of Australian family businesses over the last 12 months has lagged that of their global counterparts, according to the latest survey by PwC. Just over half (53%) of the local family businesses surveyed reported sales growth over the ...

SSgA launches US equity ETF

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... Exchange (ASX). SPDR S&P 500 ETF (ASX: SPY) aims to provide investment results corresponding to the price and yield performance of the S&P 500 Index. With more than US$172 billion in assets under management and 82 million shares traded daily, the SPDR ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... settlement since March 26, 2010. Locally, in economic news on Friday, the Australian Industry Group's Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) for September is due out while the Housing Industry Association will release new home sales figures for ...

Market Wrap AM

MARKET WRAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases August retail trade figures, while the Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for September is also due out. Meanwhile, the two-day Resources Rising Stars mining investment ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... 6.42 per cent in the last month. The release of weaker-than-expected Chinese manufacturing data on Tuesday and the performance of Hong Kong's influential share market, where large street protests have rattled investors, could also affect Australian stocks ...

Coalition Senators head-to-head over FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... over financial advice legislation. In July 2013, he also tabled the request to start a Senate inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), following a number of media reports that revealed cases of bad ...

Partners Group fund added to major platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
... at net asset value (NAV). Using a relative value approach, the Global Value Fund it has achieved long-term out-performance of global public equity markets by 40% net of fees since inception in May 2007. It has also done so with less than half the volatility. ...

Bipartisan Senate inquiry to grill financial services again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... services industry. The inquiry will continue the task of last year's Senate Economics Committee inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The new Senate investigation will continue to look at the regulator's ...

Bravura appoints new CFO

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... and international experience, as well as my deep expertise in technology services, to continuously improve the performance of the business." He commences on 22 September.

Stagflation is real in Brazil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... not only Wall Street that's benefitting, Brazil's stock market is too - and then some. Gauging from the recent performance of Brazil's stock market, the economy of the B of the BRICS appears to be on its way up. The Bovespa index has advanced by 16.1% ...