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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... year results. In Australia, the market on Friday partially reversed its big sell-off with a solid finish after the Reserve Bank's positive comments about the economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 38 points, or 0.76 per cent, at 5,018.1 points ...

Peer-to-peer portfolio benchmarking gains appeal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... previously worked as executive manager for Commonwealth Private, as national sales manager for Austock Group and with St George Bank in Melbourne. In the late 90s, he was based in South East Asia and worked for a US-based funds management consulting ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
The Australian market has opened stronger despite a fall on Wall Street overnight, earning back some of Thursday's massive losses. At 1021 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 39.7 points, or 0.8 per cent, at 5,019.7 points, while the ...

Maple-Brown Abbott moves into global listed infra

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... explained. Other fund managers who offer global listed infrastructure products in Australia include RARE, Lazard and Commonwealth Bank's Colonial First State Global Asset Management, as well as Magellan, AMP Capital and Macquarie Group. A total of $10.3 ...

QE paradox in reverse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... now? No, wasn't me, it's them punters. 'Coz as far as I'm concerned, I cannot imagine the biggest and most powerful central bank in the world and its clever men and women minting that first dollar without ever thinking when and how it'll get it back. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was down six points at 4,961. In economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens is to appear before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics ...

Australia better long-term bet than the US

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Smaller developed economies look far more attractive investment propositions than traditional global investment centres such as the US, Europe and Japan, according to BlackRock's global chief investment strategist Russ Koesterich. Addressing journalists ...

Puke on the punchbowl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... healthy and rational discussion? A debate on what to do when we get there? Something everybody expects any responsible central bank to do. I'll bet my right eyeball that a great majority didn't bother to read the entirety of the minutes of the Fed's ...

ORIX acquires 90% of Robeco from Rabobank

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
Japanese-based financial services group ORIX Corporation announced today the acquisition of 90.01 per cent of the equities in Robeco from Rabobank for around $2.5 billion. Robeco is a mid-sized global asset manager based in the Netherlands that manages ...

BNP Paribas targets UHNW clients in Asia

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... its new plans to expand its wealth management business in Asia. Chief executive Jean-Laurent BonnafA(C), said the French bank was ready to "actively pursue business development in 2013" after adapting the business to new regulations by boosting capital. ...