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Bravura set to fire with ASX listing

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
... relevant" to Bravura's large institutional clients and target foreign markets. The group provides software solutions to major financial institutions in the UK, New Zealand, Thailand, South Africa and Scandinavia and late last year announced it had expanded ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
... average and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. The US dollar staged its biggest one-day fall in six months against a basket of major currencies. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 184.18 points or 1.63 per cent to 11,094.43. The Standard & Poor's ...

Aussie fund frontrunner for Bank of China $12bn float

Investors in a little known Sydney-based fund Premium China Fund could become the early beneficiaries of the Bank of China's initial public offering (IPO), one of the most widely anticipated and sought after public floats of the decade. China's second-largest ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2006
... investors on tenterhooks over the past fortnight amid concern that monetary policy responses (higher interest rates) from the major world central banks - the Fed in particular - would slow the global economy and put pressure on corporate profitability. ...

MacarthurCook sets sail for Singapore

... 5.5 per cent. Dunstan said that prospective investors in the fund will also benefit from MacarthurCook's link up with a major US property fund manager who has signed a contract with the group to become their investment advisor and manager for the Asia ...

Rivals join hands for AustralianSuper

... multiple asset consultants. But those statistics could soon tilt more heavily in favour of the fractional 6 per cent of major super funds who use multiple asset consultants. This year the $28 billion super fund State Super announced that it had appointed ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
... the RBA's recent rate hike - and the persistently high petrol prices - which are eroding disposable income. There are no major data releases this week but financial markets will be looking for hints on monetary policy direction from speeches by US Fed ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2006
... losing streak in 12 years, as concern about higher interest rates kept investors wary. Trading was volatile, with the three major indexes wavering between negative and positive through most of the session. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 77.32 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006
The Australian share market should open sharply weaker as US and European stocks were routed overnight on concerns of higher global interest rates. The Dow Jones fell almost two per cent while UK shares dropped nearly three per cent on inflation concerns ...

Counting on SMAs with Praemium

... loosely described as a more flexible and tax-effective alternative to managed funds. The tie-up between Praemium/MLIM and a major financial planner is a positive development in the industry and could signal similar deals this year. "It's basically driven ...