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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
... and Unwired Group all hold annual general meetings. Macquarie Bank shareholders vote on a restructure of their holding company, and the first commercial flight of an A380 Airbus passenger aircraft, operated by Singapore Airlines, arrives in Sydney. The ...

Smart outsourcing or global offloading?

... public backlash arising from potential loss of jobs at home. Instead he says it's about finding out what is right for the company. "You can't look at IT in isolation but in the context of the whole company." For example, Challenger looked within Australia ...

SG Hiscock and Stockland win PIR awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
SG Hiscock & Company and the Stockland Trust Group have taken out the awards for Australia's best property managers at the annual Property Investment Research forum dinner held earlier this week. SG Hiscock & Company received the award for best Property ...

Apostle adds global LPTs

... IXIS Asset Management Australia, adds AEW to its existing distribution arrangements with global managers Loomis, Sayles & Company L.P, Harris Alternatives L.L.C., and Harris Associates L.P. The deal comes at a time when the global LPT sector is expected ...

Tobacco shares up in smoke

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... said the New Zealand Superannuation fund's preferred approach to responsible investment issues was to engage with the company or sector. "In the case of tobacco manufacture, we determined this would be in conflict to the long-term goals of a shareholder ...

Asset finance companies lose lending share

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... more SME and middle market business. According to KPMG's 2006/07 survey of finance companies, released yesterday, finance company share of business lending (including finance lease receivables) was 9.9 per cent at the end of March this year. Share was ...

Directors face prison term for lack of disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Two Australian-listed company directors have been slapped with three-year jail terms for using offshore accounts to illegally hide their shareholdings in the business. The prison terms were handed to Stuart Corp and Brian Smith, directors of Corp and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... 20th anniversary of Black Monday with a widespread sell-off. The US market was also depressed by warnings from a major company of imminent recession and concerns about the US housing market. At 1220 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had recovered ...

Canadian fund slams investment restrictions

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... Current federal investment rules in the Pension Benefits Act limit pension funds to owning no more than 30 per cent of a company's shares eligible to elect a board of directors. Funds can also invest only 5 per cent of book value assets in a single parcel ...

Liquidnet rollout gains ASIC approval

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... with plans to launch in Australia following its rollout across Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea later this year. The company said it will continue to pursue its application for an Australian Markets License, which would enable it to operate as a ...