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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market has received a mostly positive lead from offshore markets during weekend trading, after Wall Street finished firmer and the benchmark copper futures contract closed higher. Gold, silver and oil prices were weaker, however. ...

Alliance Bernstein loses staff from Aus Equity Growth and Ind'l funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Johan Carlberg, portfolio manager of AXA Australia's wholesale Australian Equity Growth and Industrials funds, and three analysts, have left the firm, prompting a 'sell' rating from S&P on both products. Standard & Poor's said the loss of Carlberg and ...

New mining tax is miners' own idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Super funds and investors upset about the mining stocks plunge this week should shift their blame from the government and instead zero in on the miners themselves because it was their idea. In a 20-page submission to the Henry Review in November 2008 ...

S&P places sell rating on AMP fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
S&P Fund Services has assigned a 'sell' rating to the AMP Capital Small Companies Fund after AMP Capital Investors announced the resignation of its portfolio manager, Michael Hughes. This leads to uncertainty surrounding the future of an Australian ...

Instos switch $100bn mandates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
More than $100 billion of assets changed hands last year as institutional investors dump poor performing fund managers, re-negotiate fees and exploit asset class-specific opportunities, a new report found. Mercer has released its 2009 Global Manager ...

The upside of a downside fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... financial planners and their investors protect their Australian equity portfolios from market swings - without having to switch their equities allocation to cash. The product, Link DS, follows a string of structured products from Instreet that have so ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... Group was $1.05 firmer at $51.12. National Australia Bank bucked the trend to fall 13 cents to $28.70. "There is a bit of a switch out of NAB, which is not surprising given the big run-up it had yesterday," Ms Saly said. "Investors are waiting to see ...

Astarra pain spreads to super funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... they can invest in. In many but not all cases, the agreement overrides the choice legislation, where a fund member can switch into another fund outside those selected by their sponsoring employer. The new Federal legislation introduced this year, which ...

Investors get $250m compensation for crook advice

FSA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
Unsuitable advice on pension switching in the UK still abound - prompting the UK's Financial Services Authority to publish new findings that will see advice firms pay $250 million in compensation to investors. The FSA found that a number of firms were ...

Strong one, says yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
The minutes of the US Federal Reserve's 16 March meeting spelled the reasons for the FOMC's decision to keep the fed funds rate unchanged at 0-0.25 per cent. "While recent data pointed to a noticeable pickup in the pace of consumer spending during the ...