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ING appoints first chief operating officer

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
... its first chief operating officer. Bertram will head up ING's new customer solutions business section, which houses the company's IT, operations, e-business and customer service areas. He will report to chief executive officer Paul Bedbrook. Commenting ...

ING sales head departs

... will leave INGA early next year. Powell's departure comes after three years in the role and amid a busy period for the company, which has launched several innovative products recently including OneCare Express. He will be replaced by Ross Barnwell, currently ...

India: a country within a country

ALEX DUNNIN REPORTING FROM MUMBAI AND NEW DELHI AT THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... Merchant's Chamber who is also president of corporate affairs for Reliance Industries, one of India's leading diversified company groups. This new capitalist orientation has unleashed a private sector and investment environment that is permeating the ...

The unpopular outperformer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
SGH20, a fund managed by SG Hiscock & Company has received little platform interest despite being the best performing Australian large cap blended fund in the last 12 months, returning more than 58 per cent. Launched in October 2004, Rainmaker data ...

Internet threat gets mobile

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... companies to viruses by using mobile hardware devices. "By using USB sticks and other external drives we are exposing the company to possible information leakage or virus transfers as we use them from one computer to another," he said. According to Bridwell ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... mortgage companies announced difficulties with the credit crisis. Freddie Mac, the second-largest US mortgage finance company, on Tuesday posted a wider third-quarter loss while Countrywide Financial Corp shares dropped over 20 per cent to their lowest ...

Bombay Stock Exchange leads governance reforms

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... downside, however, is the level of speculative money may also have grown, raising fears valuations are moving faster than company fundamentals can sometimes justify. But such fears around market integrity may be ill-founded, as the BSE has implemented ...

K2 floats on $20 million

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
K2 Asset Management's delayed initial public offering (IPO) has closed oversubscribed, giving the company a $20.48 million early Christmas present. K2 sold the nine per cent slice at $1.05 per share, giving the company a $228.6 million market cap from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... Countrywide plummeted over 20 per cent on rumours it could file for bankruptcy protection, which were later denied by the company. According to the latest data, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 34.23 points to 12,992.67 and the Standard & Poor's ...

ASX companies lag on climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... possible score, the Identifying carbon value: The Carbon Responsiveness of ASX 200 Stocks report found the average Australian company scored -0.8. Among the high achievers were the material and financial sectors while the utility and energy sectors fared ...