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Mortgage Choice booms, invests in planners

AAP AND ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
A strong housing market has helped home lender Mortgage Choice deliver its best financial results ever with a record number of loan settlements. The lender's net profit rose 5.8% to $19.8 million in the year to June 30, up from $18.7 million in the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market has pushed higher, following gains in the US and Europe. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the market was taking its lead from the US and Europe, where markets finished higher overnight. "I think we are just tracking some ...

Folkestone posts strong result

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
Property fund manager Folkestone has reported a 168% rise in its after tax profit for the full year to 30 June. Net profit after tax stood at $3.15 million, up from $1.18 million in the 2013 financial year. "The strong result in FY14 reflects the continued ...

MyState sees small growth in profits

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
Banking and wealth management company MyState has reported a small rise in profit for the full year to 30 June. Statutory after-tax profit stood at $29.6 million for the year to the end of June. This result is a 3.9% improvement on last year's $28.5 ...

Movers and shakers

Surprise exit for van Eyk asset consulting team Van Eyk's three person asset consultant team has left the company, the company has confirmed. Head of asset consulting Jonathan Ramsay and asset consultants Fil Andronaco and Jonathan Tolub resigned their ...

Janet's Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
"Ain't no value high enough, ain't no Putin tough enough, ain't no ISIS mad enough" to keep investors away from Wall Street and... Yes I know it's a double negative (but that's how the song goes and you know what it means) but more importantly, you ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following solid gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0658 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,615. In Australia, company earnings season continues with ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
The share market remains at its highest level since the GFC due to well received company earnings and a positive lead from Wall Street. But it dipped slightly in late morning trade after the latest reading on manufacturing activity in China fell below ...

Dimensional latest to join Calastone network

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
Global asset manager Dimensional Fund Advisors has become the latest manager to join Calastone's automated global transaction network service. Calastone specialises in automating manual processes for the managed fund and superannuation sectors. Previously ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
"What do you know about medicine?" This was what the doctor I consulted asked me when I asked for a stronger dose of antibiotics to rid me of the bacterial bugs that have invaded my body a few months back. Well doc, I may not know about medicine as ...