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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher this morning after a strong lead from Wall Street and takeover speculation surrounding mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto set to continue. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, at 0825 AEST, the ...

Public equity under pressure

"The issue is not private equity but what's wrong with public equity," said Future Fund chairman, David Murray, as the debate heats up over the long-term impact of private equity takeovers on the publicly listed companies sector. Commenting on the round ...

European vacation for investor capital

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
The world economy may no longer revolve around the US as investors' eyes turn elsewhere - US investors are finally noticing Europe's investment image makeover with some Western European economies proving particularly attractive. Where America has often ...

GESB launches advice division for members

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
Western Australia's $8 billion public sector super fund GESB has launched a new financial advice service for members, with a former Mercer exec to head up the division. Former Mercer HR Consulting executive, Michael Heffernan, will head up the GESB ...

BankWest goes east

From the west coast to the east coast, leading Western Australian bank BankWest continues its push into markets outside its Perth homebase when it announced that its head of retail sales will relocate to Sydney. Head of Retail Sales Mark Reid will move ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
The Australian stock market was slightly up at noon, after a slow start led by a slower US market. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 1.4 points to 5957.1, while the all ordinaries gained 1.8 points to 5937.2. On the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Houses at half price

Families priced out of the property market can avail of a new product that only requires them to stump up 50 per cent of the cost of property. St George bank and property group Australand have banded together to offer a 'co-ownership plan', a type of ...

Fund of LaSalle funds will cut fees

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
LaSalle Investment Management is launching a new fund of LaSalle funds vehicle which will enable investors to tailor a property fund of funds to their needs while eliminating any double layer of fees that can come with a multi-manager structure. Investors ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
At 1220 AEDT oil and gas producer Woodside started recovering yesterday's losses, up 45 cents to $35.62. Santos also rose, adding four cents to $9.20, while Oil Search put on two cents to $3.37. In energy news, Origin Energy Ltd announced that it had ...

Trade faster than a speeding bullet: INSTINET

The time it takes to execute a trade is about to get 10 times faster and up to 90 per cent cheaper thanks to a new trading system from INSTINET, one of the largest brokers in the electronics market. Called INSTINET Chi-X, the product promises to set ...