UBS Australian Small Companies Fund Remains 'On Hold'

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today stated that the UBS Australian Small Companies fund remains ‘On Hold’ following UBS’s confirmation that two members of its three-person Australian-equities small-cap team—Jeremy Bendeich

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Mining drives Aussie sharemarket

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Financial market trends The mining sector is now the primary driving force behind the Australian sharemarket. In terms of volumes of shares traded in March, mining volumes were double that

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AMP AXA merger takes effect

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The merger of AMP Limited (AMP) and AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Limited (AXA APH) Australian and New Zealand businesses has been implemented today. AXA APH is now wholly owned by

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Strong balance sheets fuel dividend growth, Russell says

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Australian dividends increase 6.4% Dividend yields rival term deposits Dividends are on the rise with the average dividend across the equity market growing 6.4% over the last six months, according

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Aussie equities underperform global peers

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Sharemarket Insights The Australian sharemarket has significantly underperformed other major overseas markets this financial year. Some of the factors that have led to this under-performance include higher domestic interest rates,

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Insync FM Sees 2011 as a good time to buy global shares

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Why International Equities Now? International equity fund manager, Insync Funds Management, believes that now is the time to buy global stocks. “Over the last ten years large cap global shares

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Rising oil prices – what is the tipping point for growth?

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Key points Global oil prices remain under upward pressure from turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa. This will dampen global growth and add to the financial pressure on

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AMP welcomes final court approval for AXA merger

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AMP Limited today welcomed the decision by the Supreme Court of Victoria to approve the Share Scheme for the proposed merger of AMP and AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Limited (AXA

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Dividends are back in fashion, so how do you know the designers from the fakes – Russell paper

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Russell urges investors to look beyond yield this reporting season With Rio Tinto upping its payout to shareholders and JB Hi-Fi, Cochlear and OZ Minerals following suit this reporting season,

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Profit season: Mixed, but earnings still growing

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Corporate profit season The general sense is that the profit-reporting season has so far proved very mixed. And the numbers back it up. Figures produced from Bloomberg show that there

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