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STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
The share market is weaker as another fall in oil prices hits energy stocks. The Brent price of crude oil has touched a fresh four-and-a-half year low after OPEC nations shied away from cutting production to deal with a global oversupply. "The price ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after OPEC chose not to cut oil production levels. At 0822 AEST on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was down 44 points at 5,294. In local economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The cartel that controls 40% of oil production - the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - met and concluded their 166th meeting in Vienna, Australia last night. The conclusion: "...in the interest of restoring market equilibrium, the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after the OPEC oil cartel decided not to cut output despite a supply gut and falling crude prices. At 0825 AEST on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was down 17 points at 5,397. Wall ...

LGS rejects coal, tar sands

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Local Government Super (LGS) has announced it will be screening out companies that derive the majority of their revenue from coal or tar sands. In the most comprehensive fossil fuel screening policy adopted by a major super fund, LGS has included all ...

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
The emerging markets investment landscape is best understood in terms of country blocs that perform similarly as the macro environment evolves, according to Investec Asset Management Global Strategist, Dr Michael Power. Power presented an analogy where ...

CFS FirstWrap adds Insync's Global Titans Fund

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
The Insync Global Titans Fund has been added to CFS FirstWrap. The Fund, which was launched in 2009, uses equity derivatives to protect investors during downturns. "We are delighted to join Colonial First State FirstWrap in the international equities ...

A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
"Play it again, Chumbawamba"... "I get knocked down but I get up again..." Can't really stop those bargain hunters hunting for bargains on Wall Street, 'ey? Not even with the previous day's headlines talkin' 'bout the Fed saying that those bargains ...

AMP carbon screening leads to just two divestments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
AMP Capital's new fossil fuel screening criteria will have little direct impact on investments, resulting in just two divestments and the exclusion of only one extra ASX 200-listed Australian company from the 'investible universe'. Yesterday AMP Capital ...

Asia Funds Passport on shaky ground

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Asia Funds Passport will never get off the ground because the majority of fund managers in the region are already aligning their products with European UCITS standards, according to EY Asia-Pacific and EMEIA asset management leader Roy Stockell. ...