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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
... drop in the oil price. The few bright sparks on the market were blood products and vaccine developer CSL and beverage company Fosters. At 1201 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 29.7 points to 5642.7, while the all ordinaries shed 26.6 points to ...

Public companies could learn from private equity: Tyndall

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
According to Tyndall, private equity managers are providing a shining example to public company directors of the level of outperformance they should be aiming for, as equities returns look set to dry up in the second half of 2007. Tyndall's head of ...

A whole new world of indexes: Russell

... adopt an increasingly global outlook and seek to invest in the best stocks from around the world with less emphasis on company size or country of origin," he said. On the technical side, the indexes were designed to factor in float-adjusted market capitalisation ...

Aviva upgrades investments and direct share access

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
... re-opening of funds previously closed by the respective fund managers. "Around three years ago we saw a number of small company funds in particular closed by fund managers due to capacity concerns. Since this time the Australian sharemarket has grown ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
... Exchange, the December share price index contract was down 20 points to 5577, on a volume of 27,162 contracts. Oil and gas company Woodside Petroleum was one of the earlier movers, losing 33 cents to $38.34 by 1021 AEDT. Santos dropped seven cents to ...

Energy field nationalism to impact investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... like Venezuela in their campaign to raise taxes and royalties on petroleum projects and to give their state-owned oil company a majority stake in oil operations, Bolivia nationalising its gasfields, and Russia considering partial nationalisation of three ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... significantly affected by the continued success of Japanese car makers, especially Toyota which has now become the largest company in Japan.

SG Hiscock scores four stars from S&P

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... Professional Investor Property Securities Trust have been awarded four star ratings from Standard & Poor's. SG Hiscock & Company was one of eight managers who received the four star S&P ranking. Both funds employ the same valuation model and the same ...

Company directors arrested on theft charges

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... dishonest conduct in relation financial products, the unlicensed carrying on of a financial services business and managing a company while disqualified. Nicole White has been charged with carrying on a financial services business without a license and ...

Orix sells to Allco

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
Finance company Orix Australia has sold three of its five business divisions to Allco Finance Group. The business, equipment and commercial property finance operations will form part of the restructure of Allco Hybrid Investment Trust, which was announced ...