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China funds under pressure?

... investors in China funds? Martha Wang, portfolio manager of the Fidelity China Fund, which returned a heady 88.59 per cent gross of tax and fees in the year to December 2006, said she has been positioning the fund in anticipation of a correction. First ...

Barclays head stepping down

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
The chief executive officer of Barclays Global Investors (BGI) Australia is stepping aside and will be replaced through an internal promotion. Justin Wood will step down from his role at the head of BGI Australia, with the support of senior management ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
... booked its highest close in nearly seven years as retailers such as Seven & I Holdings gained after unexpectedly strong gross domestic product data increased confidence in the world's second-largest economy. The Nikkei climbed 144.59 points, to 17,897.23 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... increased by 15 per cent over the last year. Economic analysis from the ANZ bank concludes that NSW experienced a decline of gross state product of 1.2 per cent in the first quarter of last year and 0.1 per cent in the following two quarters. Gross fixed ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... leader, Google Inc, weighing on the index. Google dropped 2.4 per cent to $US489.50. Google reported a 67 per cent jump in gross revenue, which beat a Wall Street consensus for growth of 64 per cent, but analysts said the results still failed to live ...

Everything old is new again, now: Schroders

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
Investors would do well to get back to the basics of investing, according to Schroders, with head of Australian equities, Martin Conlon, arguing the focus on 'new' asset classes and an obsession with headline data and forecasting has led some to forget ...

Managing market might require regulatory change: Macfarlane

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
... which economic growth occurs. One obvious sign of this is the upward trend in the ratio of the stock of financial assets to gross domestic product." But Macfarlane also said, "By virtue of their greater size, asset markets are now more likely to impact ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... rural sector jumped 11.4 per cent during this time. Chinese wages have approximately doubled in the last five years and gross national savings are now near fifty per cent of GDP, this compares with the Australian and US experience where the savings rates ...

KiwiSaver appoints default providers

... over time," she said. KiwiSaver is a voluntary scheme where employees elect to contribute four or eight per cent of their gross salary. New staff are automatically enrolled to the scheme but will have eight weeks to opt out. As an incentive, the government ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... Indicators summary from the ABS shows that on a seasonally adjusted basis there has been a 8.3 per cent increase in company gross operating profits over the last year and a 6.2 per cent increase in wages and salaries. Otherwise, on the same basis, inventories ...