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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... 2013. The four major banks all posted gains at the start of the day. ANZ was up eight cents at $23.90, National Australia Bank gained 2.5 cents to $23.905, Westpac was one cent higher at $25.04 and Commonwealth Bank jumped 10 cents to $59.08. National ...

Vague ANZ wealth strategy disappoints

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... launched ANZ Smart Choice Super, an aggressively priced MySuper-inspired product and announced an alliance with Swiss private bank Vontobel. Other than that, Philips presentation clinged strongly to unclear management-speak enigmas such as 'productivity ...

Industry funds to concentrate on direct distribution

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... management, including superannuation, Stewart told delegates at the conference. While Retail funds have the obvious advantage of bank balance sheets, interestingly, Stewart said one of the biggest challenges was actually securing funding in a big organisation ...

CBA responds to mobile banking demand

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
In response to customer demand for a simple, personalised and mobile banking experience, Commonwealth Bank (CBA) will be launching Kaching for Facebook, a redesigned Kaching for Android App and new sharing and tagging capability in NetBank. For the ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... butcher and my candlestick maker... and oh, my masseuse. But perhaps not Steen for he is one of the 'da man'. He is Saxo Bank'c chief investment officer and chief economist, who has an Economics degree at Copenhagen University and has 25 years plus of ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street gains on optimism the looming "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax rises and spending cuts threatening the US with recession can be avoided. At 0643 AEDT on Thursday, the December share ...

BNP Paribas Securities Services appoints IRP Asia/Pac head

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... fund services in Asia and Nicolas Le Clech, global head of IRP, Gayer is responsible for driving business development of the bank's performance reporting and risk analytics solutions among new and existing institutional clients in the region. He leads ...

Interest rates to tumble below 2.5%: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... will move to become an export led economy, cashing in on the investment that has already been made in mining or the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will be forced boost construction and manufacturing with stimulus measures." While Miller commended the ...

Obama re-election to boost healthcare and banking stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... a Republican overhaul of policy, paving the way for some activity in the banking and healthcare sectors. Federal Reserve Bank head Ben Bernanke is largely expected to stay on for another term and Birkhold says this means a continuation of quantitative ...

Sweeet!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
Greece is saved... again! Wall Street back to worrying about the cliff... again! Yes Virginia, this is another I told you so moment. You, I and Irene expected these to happen all along: We won't have closure on that US$607 billion fiscal cliff until ...