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CIO and COO award winners named

FINANCIAL STANDARD TEAM  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... the Financial Services Council. The awards were organised by La Trobe Financial, with sponsorship from National Australia Bank, JP Morgan, Commonwealth Bank and Affiliated Managers Group. The full media coverage of the awards will appear in the next ...

Down and out in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
May's over. It's done, dusted, it's obituary is written and save for the diehard bulls - and perhaps, Warren (of the "be greedy when others are fearful" fame), best forgotten. Just our luck 'ey Virginia, the euro tragedy did a replay last month, giving ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... manufacturing index for May is due out, as is the TD Securities/Melbourne Institute inflation gauge for May. Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is due to release its index of commodity prices for May. In equities news, Woolworths chairman ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... up $US13.15 on Wednesday's close of $US1,548.75. Banks and financials remained firmly in the red, with National Australia Bank the worst performer of the big four banks after its stock traded without a dividend on Thursday. The bank's stock plummeted ...

Aus investors over-reacting on Euro fears

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... David McDonald, Credit Suisse Private Banking head of strategy and research Australia. "When we get up and see a Spanish bank's gone broke, everyone thinks the world is ending when the direct impact on Australia economically - there probably isn't any ...

AUI opens Office Property Fund to new investment

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
Australian Unity Investments has re-opened the Office Property Fund to investment, which has been closed since 2008 and will offer a capped withdrawal opportunity for redemptions from the Fund. Australian Unity Investments (AUI) acquired the Office ...

Super sector turning to dedicated long-term lenders

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... superannuation sector is a really natural long term investor. If you're a commercial property borrower, and you're borrowing from a bank, they want to give you short term debt," Michael Holm, executive director, Balmain Investment Management, told Financial ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
"Here comes that rainy day feeling again, and soon my tears will be falling like rain..." (The Fortunes) Looks like I have to prefix my surname with the letters W and R for while I correctly anticipated that heightened volatility in the financial markets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... new capital expenditure and expected expenditure for March quarter 2012 and building approvals for April, while the Reserve Bank of Australia ((RBA) releases financial aggregates data. In equities news, David Jones posts third quarter sales results.. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
The Australian share market remained in negative territory in intra-day trading, with most sectors falling into the red and investors digesting weak retail trade data. Reports that China's government may not repeat its massive 2008 stimulus package ...