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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... losses on bargain buying in cautious trade ahead of a closely watched policy meeting at the US Federal Reserve. With the focus on the US central bank, investors brushed off losses on Wall Street, while Japanese shares enjoyed a pick-up thanks to a weakening ...

Super funds urged to rethink 70/30 structure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... the marked rise in bond yields and resultant loss in fixed income, coinciding with a fall in equity markets. "We need to focus instead on one end game over an enduring period of time, accounting for changing market conditions; the suitability of investments ...

Implemented Portfolios launches 'unique' super IMA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013

R&D focus giving Asian companies greater pricing power

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
A dramatic increase in the amount Asian companies are spending on research and development means many are fast becoming world beaters, according to one Fidelity portfolio manager. Presenting to more than 300 advisers at an event in Sydney with regional ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... (0.26 per cent) to 1,690.31, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite added 25.59 (0.71 per cent) at 3,605.19. Facebook was in focus after the leading social network's earnings report, released after the market closed Wednesday, showed robust growth in ad ...

Acorn appoints Asia Small Cap portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... the small cap space. "Acorn Capital's investment strategy is to take advantage of this inefficiency through our research focus, which includes spending a great deal of time in Asia visiting companies and talking with management, and this is already delivering ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
The Australian share market has opened lower, with activity driven by company earnings statements. Invast Securities chief market analyst Peter Esho said the local market on Thursday was preparing for reporting season to get fully underway. It was a ...

Credit Suisse to launch small-cap business with First NZ Capital

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
Credit Suisse and First NZ Capital have expanded their partnership to form a new business focused on the Australian small-cap sector. Credit Suisse Australia and the New Zealand stockbroker have held a strategic alliance since 2002. Credit Suisse said ...

Fidelity launches new mid-small cap Australian equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
Fidelity has launched a new Australian equity fund focusing on the mid- and small-cap market. The Fidelity Future Leaders Fund will comprise a portfolio of between 40 and 70 stocks from outside the Australian market's 50 largest companies. The fund ...

Super fund returns as good as it gets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
Super funds on track to deliver average returns for 2012-13 of 15%, the third best in the past 26 years, demonstrate how fund members who kept their nerve after the GFC are now reaping the benefits. The result is based on preliminary analysis of Rainmaker's ...