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New identity for AMP Henderson Global Investors

Although it may be prey of the National Australia Bank, the AMP continues to announce more changes. AMP Henderson Global Investors (HGI), the insurer's funds management division, today announced it will be renamed AMP Capital Investors. The change will ...

Great Southern Plantations set to raise $55 million through security issue

Great Southern Plantations said it intends to raise up to $55 million through the issue of Transferable Reset Exchangeable Securities (TREES). The funds will be used to provide additional working capital, predominantly for the acquisition of further ...

OECD predicts continued economic recovery

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced recently in a report published by its chief economist Jean-Philippe Cotis that a US economic recovery is unfolding whilst in Japan, growth has surprised on the upside, but in ...

Home loan affordability falls to a seven year low: AMP/REIA

The affordability of home loans across Australia has fallen to a seven year low according to the AMP Banking/REIA Home Loan Affordability Indicator released today. The national Home Loan Affordability Indicator (HLAI), the ratio of median family income ...

Macquarie agrees to enforceable undertaking by ASIC

Macquarie Investment Management Limited (MIML), a Macquarie Bank Group company, has agreed to an enforceable undertaking accepted by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to improve its compliance with ASIC's policy on prospective ...

Midday market wrap: $A firmer but bonds weaker

The Australian dollar was marginally firmer but had unravelled a good deal of its offshore gains to noon. At 1200 the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.6476/81 compared with yesterday's close of 0.6475/80. The Australian currency hit a two-week ...

Two Wattle administrators given suspended sentence

Wattle scheme administrators Anne and Robert Corbett were today sentenced in the Brisbane District Court in relation to 48 charges of being knowingly concerned in the promotion of prescribed interests, in contravention of the Corporations Act. Mrs Corbett ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries trail higher

The All Ordinaries trailed higher by almost 0.4 per cent, whilst Hong Kong's Hang Seng dipped lower by nearly 0.7% and Tokyo's Nikkei index rose by nearly a third of one per cent. The ANZ job advertisement series data report for August released today ...

Job advertisements rise 1.5% in August: ANZ job advertisement series

The number of job advertisements in major metropolitan newspapers rose by 1.5 per cent in August, to an average of 21,081 per week, the highest level since February and 0.3% higher than in August last year. "The modest upward trend in job advertising ...

ICAP says US current account deficit causing considerable global uncertainty

Economists at ICAP have said that the capital flows that have been behind the blow out in the US current account deficit will not reverse quickly and that was leaving the global financial markets to face considerable uncertainty over the next few years. ...