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Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
Guess what? It's the bull market's first anniversary today! Hip..hip... Hooray Virgina! You and I have kept up the faith despite being battered by waves of doubters in an ocean of despair. It was exactly one year ago (9 March 2009) when Wall Street ...

MPW appoints state managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
Macquarie Private Wealth has appointed Tom Lawton and Jamie Melville as state managers of Queensland and Victoria respectively. Lawton joins MPW from Professional Investment Services, where he held various senior management roles and was most recently ...

Data data everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
Mondayitis. This and the flood of first-tier economic data set to be released later in the week will keep the Australian financial markets well, a bit out of sorts today. Friday night's performance on Wall Street was not telling enough to sway Australian ...

Russell in hiring spree, Elkins departs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... development manager based in Sydney. Sorensen joins Russell from AIA. He has also held roles at AMP and Citigroup/MetLife. Tom Ovnerud has been appointed as business development officer, supporting the northern team and based in Sydney. Ovnerud joins ...

Trader's market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
What's the trouble with Wall Street? It can't seem to make its mind these past three days - down, up, down. US equity indices closed lower last night after rising the day before and falling before the day before. Just writing that sentence has gotten ...

No cane toad approach to SMSF shake-up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
As the countdown begins to the release of the Cooper Review's recommendations on SMSFs, the Review's chair Jeremy Cooper said they won't be adopting a 'cane toad' solution to the industry's flaws. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia ...

Good news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
Another day, another good day on Wall Street overnight. It could not be any different given the good omens provided by last night's US economic data releases. Remember that inventory de-stocking that was prevalent over the past months? Seems that American ...

GMO head of Aussie equities departs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Ric Suvak has left his role as head of Australian Equities at GMO Australia this week for undisclosed reasons - leaving more than $4 billion of funds under management to a member of the group's domestic equities team. Geoff Wells, who was previously ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
Ouch! On days like these, an enticing photo of Miranda Kerr would go a long way in easing the pain. Someone please email me one! Now I understand why people around the world - and I would guess that they mainly belong in this industry - are crying out ...

Perpetual gets four stars from S&P

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... strongly rated funds, run by high quality investment teams, justifying the product's fees," said S&P Fund Services analyst, Tom Mills. Investors should be aware that this fund does not provide exposure to Australian resources shares, so the domestic ...