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Apples are not apples with new accounting standards

... the new accounting standards", notes that, in the medium term, reported earnings will become less useful as a guide to a company's performance. Brad Potter, the author of the research, said that reported profits and balance sheets, for example, will ...

DirectPortfolio to launch SMA Lite

... DirectPortfolio offers their SMA product for a minimum of $25,000. Paul Bray, executive director at Explorer Group, the parent company of DirectPortfolio, says the higher entry point means that younger people who don't have that much money miss out although ...

Franklin Templeton ushers 2006 with new chief

... William Yun, president of Franklin Templeton Institutional. On Gall's retirement, Yun said, ""John Gall will retire from the company after seeing our Australia business through a period of strong growth, and positioning it for future success. Today the ...

Ironbridge cements role in NZ aged care

... healthcare market, the future of which was underpinned by the aging NZ population". Tomlinson will remain CEO of the new company and will hold a 30 per cent stake. While Broekhuizen declined to comment on the size of the transaction, the combined group ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2005
... Unity chief executive Rohan Mead holds a briefing on demutualisation developments. NEW YORK - US stocks fell as major oil company stocks slid following a drop of nearly $US2 a barrel in crude oil and after software maker Oracle posted a lower profit. ...

Spark electrifies market at $1.8b

... particularly given the mix of international and domestic institutions," said Bob Stobbe, Spark's CEO. The newly listed company will own a 49 per cent interest in three of the country's largest electricity distribution businesses namely Powercor in Victoria ...

Morningstar to buy Ibbotson

... Australia's spokesperson, says it is too early to comment on the implications of the move to the local arm although the parent company has said that the proposal is part of their global expansion plans. "Morningstar has operations in 16 countries and ...

Zurich to launch Life Risk Factory

... right distribution and the right technology". It is understood the group has a deal with STS, an insurance technology company which last week launched an easy-to-use web-based insurance platform, as reported in Financial Standard. McKee notes that life ...

Daily Economic Update

... 3.4 per cent is taken into consideration. While positive for the economy, this will put upward pressure on inflation as company's bid up wages to attract workers - a situation the RBNZ is trying to nip in the bud through higher interest rates.

Machiavellian Macville gets prison term

... found guilty of six fraud charges. Robert Pierre Macville funnelled client funds of around $470,000 into his own private company Macville & Gibson Holdings Pty Ltd between March 2001 and July 2003. At the time, he was working as a financial adviser for ...