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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... remaining dominant themes. Investors turned to defensive stocks early in the day but funds returned to the major resource and finance sectors later in the session to send the major indices higher. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 11.5 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... general meetings. On Monday, the Australian share market closed just over one per cent higher after gains in the resources sector but volumes were thin ahead of the US retail sales figures for October. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 48.8 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... slid to a 12-year low on fears about financial system stability. Investors mostly shrugged off a comment from Japan's finance minister that the government is studying measures to support the stock market, as the Nikkei briefly touched 7,155.16 -- not ...

Clitheroe and Kelty honoured

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... securities founding director Paul Clitheroe was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his service to the finance sector through the promotion of financial literacy and to the community. He is currently chairman of the advisory board to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... Australia (CEDA) on media in the 21st century. There is a slew of economic data to be released today including housing finance data for April, international merchandise trade data for May. ANZ Banking Group Ltd releases the May job advertisement survey ...

Bluestone repositions reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... were $466 million of reverse mortgage settlements in 2007. In April the reverse mortgage specialist Australian Seniors Finance wrote to mortgage brokers to inform them that it planned to stop taking applications for new loans. That decision took effect ...

When good housing news is bad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... and starts incentivising banking staff to write these loans or risk not meeting their sales targets. The Finance Sector Union said this week that nearly 60 per cent of banking staff are pressured to sell debt products even they believe the loans are ...

AustralianSuper appoints new BDM head

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
AustralianSuper has appointed national secretary of the Finance Sector Union Paul Schroder as new general manager of business development. AustralianSuper chief executive officer Ian Silk said Schroder's relationship skills and extensive contact list ...

Aviva reshuffles its global deck

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
... independently," he said. Craig Brackenrig, former chief financial officer of Aviva Australia, has also been promoted to finance director for the Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore, with Rob Donaghy, former group director of product, marketing and ...

FinLit in schools in 2008

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
... one of the key problems with financial literacy was, according to chairman Paul Clitheroe, that people in the financial sector "speak a different language". Will Morony, executive officer of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, said, "Financial ...