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NAB exits AXA AP bidding war

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
National Australia Bank has dropped its bid to buy AXA Asia Pacific, paving the way for other parties to acquire AXA AP's Australian and New Zealand assets. According to an Australian Securities Exchange statement released late yesterday, NAB terminated ...

Westpac online investors get global access

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
Westpac Online Investing adds a managed funds supermarket, international shares and U.S. exchange-traded options to its product suite, allowing its more than a quarter million investors better access to overseas markets. Westpac Online Investing announced ...

Charter Hall appoints Cannon

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... joined Charter Hall in 2007 as development manager for the group's Brisbane operations. "We are seeing increased investor interest in our high quality products and I look forward to working across Western Australian and Queensland - two states in which ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... confidence index rose to 11 in August, reversing a decline in July, and was slightly better-than-expected. "The fact that interest rates haven't moved up for some time and we know that there's quite a squeeze on labour costs at the moment, I'm not surprised ...

Mistaken identity on term deposits

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... Planners Association of Australia. "Basically a term deposit is a 'dollar-in, dollar-out' approach, there is no risk from interest rate fluctuations. Also, this report assumes that all term deposits are long term, but they are not, you can have as little ...

China not heading for a property bust

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... at least one year in cities they intend to buy. "They're trying to stop property speculation and hopefully reduce the interest in property investment," she said. Turn to Chinese citizens' relatively low gearing ratios and investors will find another ...

Shorten takes on superannuation portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Bill Shorten, former Parliamentary secretary for disability services and AustralianSuper and Victorian Funds Management Corporation director, has been appointed minister for superannuation while former superannuation minister Chris Bowen takes on the ...

CB thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... institutions. Emergency meeting? That spells trouble to me! The Bank of England's latest monetary policy decision - it kept interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent and maintained its emergency bond purchase plan - could perhaps be seen as a template ...

Instreet closes Reliance strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... closure. "The reason they closed down is because we determined the fund size wasn't big enough and it was in the best interest of investors to close them down," said Lucas. Boutique manager Instreet works with financial advisers to distribute investment ...

LICs versus ETFs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... at a discount," said Amanda Skelly, director of ETF product development at Russell. ETFs have been attracting greater interest from financial planners due to the greater transparency and higher ability to be benchmarked. Over recent years LICs have received ...