Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 10231 - 10240 of 17967 results for "Bank"

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Aust stocks 0.73% lower at noon The Australian share market was lower at noon after falls in Europe and drops in commodity prices. At 1201 on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 33.2 points, or 0.73 per cent, at 4,637.9 points, while the ...

LM secures due diligence agreement

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
LM Investment Management (LM) has signed an exclusive due diligence agreement with two offshore real estate private equity funds, worth $1billion. The two offshore funds, which can't be named due to a confidential agreement, have expressed a strong ...

Allianz wins top insurance award

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Allianz has won the award for Life Insurance Product of the Year at the 2012 Australian Banking and Finance (AB+F) Awards. The awards, held on Thursday at The IVY in Sydney, are Australia's premier insurance accolades with the winners chosen by an independent ...

BOQ not a takeover target: Grimshaw

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Bank of Queensland (BOQ) is not a takeover target, and the worst is behind it, said its chief executive, after the bank became the first in two decades to post a loss. Stuart Grimshaw, BOQ chief executive officer, denied speculation that the bank would ...

William Blair appoints head of distribution in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
William Blair, the Chicago-based global investment bank, has appointed Alex FranASois as head of institutional distribution for Australia and New Zealand. With more than $47 billion in assets, William Blair Investment Management provides portfolio management ...

UK becoming OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... Monday, the December share price index futures contract was down 45 points at 4,522. In economic news on Monday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor, (financial markets) Guy Debelle is due to speak to the Australian Securitisation Forum ...

BoQ first Aussie bank to post loss in 20 years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
The losses, which were carried over from the first half of 2012 despite the bank returning to profit in the second, have been blamed on bad loans and plunging property prices in Queensland, as well as on a slowing economy. The last instance of an Australian ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... GrainCorp have been placed in a trading halt after a potential suitor requested talks with GrainCorp. NAB - NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LTD - down 80.5 cents, or 2.99 per cent, at $16.145 National Australia Bank has raised its provisions to deal with the ...

netwealth adopts Morphic Global Opps Fund

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... Japanese Drug Stores (Japan, 2.61%), Manila Water Company (Philippines, 2.38%), Daiichikosho Co (Japan, 2.25%), Indian Non Bank Finance (India, 2.22%), Valero Energy Group (US, 2.18%), Bob Evans Farms (US, 1.99%), plus emerging markets indices and commodities ...