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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... 14,612.45. The Nikkei had bounced back in the morning but plummeted by as much as 3.37 per cent after lunch before regaining ground. Seoul closed up 0.22 per cent, or 4.26 points at 1,973.45. Hong Kong stocks closed down 0.23 per cent, or 51.01 points ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... nine cents to $55.01. But, gold miner Newcrest had gained 37 cents, or 2.54 per cent, to $14.93 as gold prices held their ground. In other news, Echo Entertainment lost 11.34 per cent, or 39 cents, to hit $3.05 after James Packer's rival Crown Limited ...

ASIC takes aim at charitable investment funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a consultation paper proposing changes to existing exemptions for charities that raise investment funds. The proposed changes will affect approximately 200 charitable investment ...

NZ Super offloads mining shares on RE concerns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... over which problems have occurred," O'Connor said. "Until it is evident that significant improvements can be made on the ground we will be excluding both companies from our portfolio." "It is important that we focus the fund's efforts to influence company ...

No middle ground post-FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... groups are going through a major change, as an adviser, you either have to be very big or very small and being in the middle ground is going to be very hard." Heine explained that regulatory requirements demand better practice management and efficiency ...

Wealth of opportunities for Aussie asset managers overseas

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... taking products overseas to do their research, understand the cultural nuances of each market and employ local people on the ground to help with relationship building. He also warned against using third party markets. "When the reputation of your business ...

La Trobe Financial announces CIO and COO of the Year

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
La Trobe Financial has named the winners of its annual CIO/COO awards at a presentation on the 89 th floor of Melbourne's Eureka Tower. Chief Investment Officer of the Year went to Gerard Parlevliet, CIO of Commonwealth Bank Group Super, one of the ...

Three arrows hitting the spot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
"Your love keeps liftin' me higher Than I've ever been lifted before..." - Jackie Wilson No Virginia, it's not about Wall Street this time...this time investors are back lovin' made-in-Japan stocks...lifting the Nikkei perhaps not higher than it's been ...

Bissaker sets sights on Big Four market share

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
New head of Virgin Money Australia (VMA) Brian Bissaker said the tie-up with Bank of Queensland (BOQ) would lay the ground for an assault on the Big Four bank's market share. Bissaker told Financial Standard there would be significant additional investment ...

Super election infighting intensifies

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... Australians with a financially comfortable life in retirement." Political posturing has seen both sides of the house try to win ground over the issue with Labor capitalising on Coalition iterations that they would call off the increase in compulsory ...