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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher in the wake of near record highs on Wall Street and overnight gains in commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0656 AEST, the June share price index contract was trading up 21 points ...

Quadrant leads super funds investors to buy Red Rooster

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
... Building Products, Atlas Steel, Penrice Soda Products, Peoplebank, Undercoverwear in Australia and Pumpkin Patch. The Quadrant focus on niche retail brands illustrates how, despite the intense media interest in mega private equity deals seeking to acquire ...

BT gets Oarsome and rows ahead of fleet

... are many parallels between how to excel in sport and in finance. "You have to work out where you want to get to, but not focus on that end result. You want to focus on all the key ingredients to deliver that end result," he said. Michelle Baltazar

Arnheim Gillard's new advisory service targets HIP managers

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... to a younger demographic, characterised by general managers in their mid-30s, differing from Arnheim Gillard's previous focus on high net worth clients. Headed by Michael Swinsburg, who joined the company late last year, the service will provide advice ...

CHOICE rates reverse mortgages

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... consumer magazine currently being distributed to tens of thousands of subscribing consumers. The CHOICE good practice standards focus on six elements: defaulting conditions, unconditional no negative equity guarantees, whether loan terms are not fixed ...

BlackRock accumulating mandates

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... of tax aware investing. Nearly all of our new institutional client portfolios are managed on an after-tax basis, where we focus on delivering the clients strong net performance, which is the performance the members care about."

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... weighing on the market a little bit," CMC Markets market analyst David Land said. "There also seems to be a little bit of focus on some of the companies generating earnings out of the US, with the Aussie dollar getting over 83 US cents there. Stocks ...

Mortgage brokers bounce back in latest mystery shop

... rated above average across all areas of the services they provide, performing particularly highly when it came to customer focus, knowledge of products and honesty and integrity," he said. "This is significant considering shoppers rated trust and customer ...

Fin Synergy ramps up R&D

... on R&D by 300% and we intend to maintain that level of expenditure over the coming few years," he said. The group's key focus would be on how to help administrators and fund managers outsource the upgrade and maintenance of the Acurity platform. For ...

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 ...