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Dimensional grows fixed income team

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... appointed as a portfolio manager in the Dimensional investment team in Sydney. The global asset manager is headquartered in Texas but has offices in Australia, Canada and Europe, managing more than $US200 billion in assets worldwide. A quarter of these ...

BetaShares launches Aussie first oil exchange traded fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... ASX code "OOO", aims to track the performance of the S&P GSCI Crude Oil Index. This index tracks the performance of West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is a global pricing ...

Promises and plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." (George W. Bush) Ok, stop giggling now, we all know what the former US President ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... health of the European and US economies amid debt problems on both sides of the Atlantic. New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate for delivery in October, fell $1.81 to close at $87.24 a barrel. In London, Brent North Sea crude for October ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... swept up the US eastern coast over the weekend. North Sea Brent for October delivery gained $US1.20 to $US112.56 and West Texas light sweet crude rose $US1.95 to $US87.32. TOKYO - Tokyo share prices closed up 0.61 per cent on Monday after Finance Minister ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... for the third quarter on improving demand for its chips. Broadcom rose 9.4 per cent, and rivals Advanced Micro Devices and Texas Instruments each edged up less than one per cent. Almost half of the Dow's decline came from 3M Co. The stock fell 5.4 per ...

Two new appointments as Equiti fund closes in on first US property

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... Australian dollar by buying US real estate. Toll said the fund now had its first acquisition under due diligence in Dallas, Texas. "It's over 300 apartments in a residential block," he said. Toll said the price was expected to be between $15 and $20 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... with ExxonMobil rising 2.1 per cent and Chevron gaining 1.4 per cent after the world's two major oil benchmarks -- West Texas Intermediate in New York and Brent North Sea crude in London -- both gained more than two dollars a barrel. Bond prices dropped ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... straight weeks of losses, capped off with a 1.4 per cent plunge last Friday. Energy stocks took a beating as the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude plunged $1.99 in New York trading, with oil-services firm Schlumberger dropping 1.2 per cent ...

UniSuper to shed mandates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... charters - 98 in total - were allocated to alternative investments such as airports in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, a Texas toll road and some plantations. Some of the contracts were with private equity managers such as Archer Capital, CVC Europe ...