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MLC appoints portfolio manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... strategies. Piper will be responsible for the firm's debt strategies and a number of other non-equity sectors such as commodities and currency. Piper was head of Australian fixed interest at UBS Global Asset Management from 1985 to 2000 and was portfolio ...

Mercer invests $35m in commodities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
Mercer's investment arm is tapping into the commodities sector with a $35 million investment mandate in H3's Global Commodities program. H3's commodity program returned more than 13 per cent over a one year period to September against the Dow Jones ...

RIMES and MSCI Barra team up

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... gain access to all the global and local benchmarks available on the RIMES platform, covering equities, fixed income, commodities, and Islamic indices. Meanwhile, the research, creation, updating, validation and delivery of the data files will be carried ...

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... government announcements and central bank decisions determined entry and exit into equities, currencies, bonds and commodities - and this was changing by the day. Wall Street fell after the US Federal Reserve brought the fed funds rate down by 50 basis ...

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... forecast for Australia, there is still a risk that into a recession the country could stumble. The rising price of commodities - which helped underpin growth over the past few years - has reversed. Similarly, crude oil prices are currently trading in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... They're the ones who had the big gains yesterday," Mr Klusman said. "(Investors) bought (them) yesterday punting that commodities were up and everything was looking rosy and they expected it would have a bit of a bounce." Oil and other commodity prices ...

IG Markets enables chart trading

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... it through to an actual trade," Szabo said. Charts on the new IG Markets trading system cover stocks, indices and commodities and DealThru Charts is offered on IG Markets' website, www.igmarkets.com.au. Other recent initiatives from IG Markets Australia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... recession. Resources stocks were hit hard on the back of lower commodity prices and an expectation that demand for commodities would fall further. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index dropped 286.6 points, or 6.67 per cent, to 4,013.4, while the broader All ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... the local market amid expectations the financial turmoil will spark a global recession and reduce future demand for commodities. Among the big miners, BHP Billiton was down by $3.01, or 10.13 per cent, at $26.69, while rival Rio Tinto declined $10.38 ...

CSAM opens commodity fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... investing in the domestic equity market. According to Christopher Burton, Credit Suisse portfolio manager, equities and commodities had only posted negative returns at the same time twice since 1970. Despite this, Burton said the fund would still be ...