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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... US homebuilder confidence rose by four points to 58, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. Germany's DAX 30 rose 1.6 per cent as investor confidence in Europe's biggest economy jumped back into positive ...

AFA appoints Inspire chair

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... for Children, MND and Me, Little Heroes Foundation, Salvation Army, Make-A-Wish, Ronald McDonald House Hobart, Women's Housing and Legacy.

La Trobe Financial appoints head of institutional mandates

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... has developed a new mortgage product suite in response to the twin challenges of intergenerational wealth transfer and housing affordability in the country. Called parent-to-child (P2C), it is a loan facility that - as the name suggests - offers an alternative ...

Forward guidance at its best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... energy, food and other import prices." "Second, despite developments abroad and a larger-than-anticipated slowing in the housing market, consumer confidence is being supported by the combination of lower effective interest rates, a strong labour market ...

SSgA warns of equity market complacency

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... resources. Pretty much two thirds of the risk comes from those broad sectors. The drivers of return for the banks are housing performance and economic factors such as unemployment. The resources are really dominated by the growth of China. Those are ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... cent, its lowest level since July 2008. In local economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases housing finance figures for September. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Friday closed higher despite ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its statement on monetary policy. Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association's performance of construction index (PCI) for October is also due out. No major equities news is ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... two per cent, to $3.575. The building products maker said it's confident of lifting its underlying profit, helped by the housing boom, and reported a 48% rise in first half net profit to $68.4 million.

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STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... crisis in group insurance and consider the future of insurance in superannuation. We also look at how the trend towards in-housing might be putting pressure on asset consultants to change strategy and profile Lonsec Fiscal Holding's joint chief executive ...

In-housing creating consultant uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
Asset consultants are jostling for position in a bid to combat the in-housing of super fund investment teams, with a variety of strategies emerging. At its recent annual Ideas Exchange in Melbourne, Towers Watson addressed superannuation fund CIOs some ...