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Heads roll at Nomura

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
The chief executive officer and chief operating officer of ailing Japanese investment bank Nomura will step down to take responsibility for an insider trading scandal. Kenichi Watanabe, Nomura's chief executive, and Takumi Shibata, its chief operating ...

Believe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
"C'mon baby light my fire..." That exactly was what European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi did when he spoke at the Global Investment Conference in London last night. Read his lips: "To the extent that the size of these sovereign premia ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street and European bourses rose strongly after the European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi pledged full support for the euro. At 0800 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... just following suit in terms of what happened with the Dow Jones industrial average. "Comments from an ECB (European Central Bank) policy maker regarding the possibility of the ESM (European Stability Fund) gaining a banking licence also gave a bit of ...

AGEST bungle isolated: BNP Paribas

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
French investment bank BNP Paribas has said that the miscalculation of AGEST Super returns reported yesterday was an isolated incident. AGEST Super recently wrote to affected members advising them that they have either been under or over paid - after ...

Stammer joins Centric Wealth investment committee

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... and Asia with a career spanning over 50 years. Starting his career as an academic economist before moving to the Reserve Bank and progressing to become deputy chief manager, he has held numerous senior private sector positions including chief economist ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
It's another one of those days - those days of rumours and gossips and whispers. And oh, digging around for reasons on why the glass is half empty. It was risk on after cyberspace got wind of ECB council member Ewald Nowotny telling Bloomberg that the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... weaker-than-expected numbers on new-home sales. Overseas financial markets were also buoyed overnight on news the European Central Bank (ECB) could boost the euro zone's new bailout fund - easing concerns about the region's economies. At 0805 AEST on ...

Tyndall AM restructures distribution

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
Tyndall AM has restructured its distribution and product development functions to increase focus on the institutional and intermediary markets, including creation of a private wealth business. As part of the change Matt Russell, previously head of institutional ...

AGEST bungles returns

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... she said. The mistake has resulted in both an internal review at AGEST super, and a re-evaluation of the processes French bank and custodian BNP Paribas has in place. "We have put a lot of effort into getting it right and we have put a lot of effort ...