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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... Whale" losses last year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 25.03 points, or 0.17 per cent, to 14,514.11, the first time in nine days it did not set a fresh record. The broad-based S&P 500 lost 2.53 points, or 0.16 per cent, to 1,560.70, after ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... to end at 6,529.41 points. Frankfurt's DAX 30 index again surpassed the 8,000 point mark - passed last week for the first time in five years - closing 1.1 per cent higher at 8,058.37 points. In Paris, the CAC 40 finished at the highest mark of the year ...

Managed accounts set for an overhaul

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
For the first time in nine years, the country's financial services regulator is placing the managed accounts sector through a comprehensive review, addressing grey areas and fixing major drawbacks that have long derailed the sector's growth. Institutions ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... pulling the unemployment rate down to 7.7 per cent from 7.9 per cent. That pushed the Dow over the 14,400 line for the first time, but a sell-off in the last 15 minutes of the session left the index shy of that level, up 67.58 points, or 0.47 per cent ...

Slight lift in women presence on boards: ACSI

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... 2013. At this rate it would take until 2024 to achieve the ACSI benchmark for all ASX200 companies. However, for the first time, all ASX50 companies currently have at least a woman on the board. The survey shows that only 4 % of board chairs are women ...

Super operating costs rise to $150 per member

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... from Deloitte shows. The audit, consulting and advice giant said that costs per member broke the $150 mark for the first time in 2012, representing a 6% increase on the previous year. While operating costs as a percentage of assets under management had ...

EM corp bonds better than US: CFSGAM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... returned a staggering 89.1% following after the end of the civil war resulted in the government paying interest for the first time in 25 years. "You could virtually throw darts at a board last year and get a positive return. Even Lebanon, which was war ...

Time for Japan sceptics to think again

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... demand, albeit with some volatility. "In conclusion, dramatic changes are taking place in Japan, and there are, for the first time since we can recall, powerful reasons to believe that the balance of risks in this market is firmly on the upside," explained ...

Telstra Super reappoints David Leggo independent chairman

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... chairman of the fund. Leggo is a former Trustee of the Year and was appointed Telstra Super independent chairman for the first time in 2010. During the last few years he has overseen a period of positive change for the fund with the introduction of two ...

AvSuper appoints Perpetual for a $75m equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... This is the first appointment that the Canberra-based superannuation fund has done in the last year and it is also the first time that it does business with Perpetual. "The appointment is a review of our Australian equities portfolio and it represents ...