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Aon buys private insurance broker Freeman McMurrick

... of Aon Australia. He believes the purchase will give them the opportunity to expand to new business lines. The acquired company, for example, provides a suite of insurance products that are targeted towards mid-sized companies with the products bulk-sold ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
... stocks sharply lower and off recent five-year highs as soaring commodity prices sparked nervousness about the outlook for company profits and investors closed positions ahead of the Easter holiday. By the close, the FTSE 100 was down 50.5 points at 6016.5. ...

Future Fund appointee's business cops downgrades from Fitch

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2006
Fitch Ratings has downgraded all funds formerly under the watch of Future Fund board appointee Trevor Rowe's company N M Rothschild and Sons (Australia) (NMRA) following last week's announcement NMRA had offloaded that part of the business to Invesco ...

Westpac flags billion dollar play in residential REIT

... their employees," said Lianne Buck, the fund manager of the soon-to-launch residential REIT. "An example might be a mining company which has a large portfolio of housing for their employees but might not necessarily be in the business of owning residential ...

TOWER appoints new chairman

... ahead of current chair Olaf O'Duill's retirement on 30 June. The announcement follows the recent re-organisation of the company due to the Prefsure merger early this year. Dr Barton is on several public company boards including Air Liquid Australia ...

Education drives choice: Plum

... funds have failed, spurring more than three-quarters of its 110,000-strong members to exercise choice. The Melbourne-based company is a corporate superannuation specialist with a twist. It administers the Plum Superannuation Fund, which specialises in ...

HFA CEO to score $65.9 million in ASX listing

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2006
... are to vote on a proposal to pay HFA chief executive officer Spencer Young approximately $65.9 million as part of the company's ASX listing. Young, the founder and chief executive officer of MFS subsidiary HFA, is the trustee of the Spencer Young Family ...

Money For Living promoters face court on fraud

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2006
... exchange for 'lifetime tenancy' was unclear. "It is unclear what the legal rights of these consumers are now that this company has been placed into the hands of administrators," said Thomson. "In particular, I stress the importance of seeking to place ...

Qld to dominate Future Fund board of guardians

... been chief general manager of NRMA Asset Management. Elstone is the managing director of SFE Corporation, the holding company for the Sydney Futures Exchange and a director of the National Australia Bank. Dr John Mulcahy is chief executive officer and ...

Commonwealth banks on customer service and IT

... to bump up the group's annual capital spend on technology. Michael Harte, formerly at PNC and Citibank, also joins the company as chief information officer (CIO) next month. And hot on the tail of industrial relations changes, the bank plans to include ...