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AMP upgrades online functionality

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... expansion of online tools in the wealth sector follows the rapid pace of change in retail banking in Australia. Commonwealth Bank under chief information officer Michael Harte has taken the lead in online mobile services, which saw the bank launch the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... gains. Additionally, reports that banks would use an upcoming offer of very cheap three-year funds from the European Central Bank (ECB) to source twice or even three times the nearly 500 billion euros ($A618.77 billion) they took in December added to ...

What hard landing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... politburo gets. And certainly, they don't want their economy to land hard. PBOC to the rescue. Late last year, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) cut the reserve requirement ratio for its banks by 50 basis points as it shifted its policy focus from inflation ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... shaky global debt markets. Investors are also cautious ahead of trading updates from the banks, including National Australia Bank and Macquarie Group next week, and ahead of the NAB business survey for December. "With a second RBA (Reserve Bank of Australia) ...

German FM defends Euro

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
The Euro isn't the cause of Europe's economic woes and referring to it as a currency crisis misses the point, said the German foreign minister, Dr Guido Westerwelle, in a strongly worded speech to the Brookings Institution in the US last month. "The ...

Nikkei not nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... And the external account is unlikely to improve anytime soon, particularly if the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank's recent global growth downgrades prove accurate. Moreover, the lingering European debt crisis would further put upward pressure ...

Perpetual hires ex-port manager to equities team

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... long/short equity portfolio, predominantly focused on Australia. Prior to Ellerston Capital, he was lead analyst at UBS Investment Bank from 1998 to 2006, covering large and small cap companies across a range of sectors. "Our ability to strategically ...

Crowe Horwath eyes HNWI business

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... into the high net worth individual space. The firm said the appointments were part of Crowe Horwath's strategy to build its bank of expertise in the business advisory area supporting small to medium enterprises and high net worth individuals. "At a time ...

Stirrings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... crisis there. As a result, most European equity indices fell by more than 1% while we slept. And to think the European Central Bank's (ECB) long-term refinancing operation (LTRO) that injected liquidity into the banking system was doing just fine in ...

Fiducian acquisition expands planning business

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... Portfolio Services, which is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, Fiducian Financial Services has a network of 62 non-bank aligned advisers across the country. The company said it is "actively seeking" quality financial planning businesses in line ...