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Up, down or sideways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
1.00,1.03,1.05,1.08,1.10,1.20 - no these are not random numbers. These are the numbers marking the Australian dollar's recorded fresh - and fresher - after-float highs against its big brother, the US dollar. The last time I wrote about the value of ...

Grady joins Macquarie board

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... Company partner Diane Grady to its board of directors. Grady will join the boards of both Macquarie Group Limited and Macquarie Bank Limited as an independent non-executive director, effective May 19 2011. Macquarie Group and Macquarie Bank chairman ...

Financial services boost mixed Macquarie results

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Macquarie's Banking and Financial Services Group (BFS) generated $275 million in operating profit for the full year to March 31 2011, a 5 per cent increase on its contribution the previous year. BFS, which provides retail banking and financial services ...

SMSF trustees hit pension payment woe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Self-managed super fund trustees risk being hit by tax and forced liquidations in the pensions phase if they don't plan ahead, financial services firm HLB Mann Judd has warned. Michael Hutton, head of wealth management at the firm, said self-managed ...

Computershare gobbles up BNY Mellon shareowner services

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... debt has been issued offshore in the year to date including to companies such as Asciano, Telstra, Woolworths and Macquarie Bank.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... which gained after reporting full year earnings. Macquarie's full year profit declined by nine per cent as the investment bank said earnings in fiscal 2012 were expected to improve on the year just passed. The stock added 41 cents, or 1.17 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... on Thursday as dealers took profits from early gains spurred by a Wall Street rally after Fed chief Ben Bernanke said the bank had no timetable for raising interest rates. The news from the Federal Reserve, however, sent the dollar tumbling against the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... $83.99. The big four banks also were key beneficiaries of investors' expectations of rising interest rates, with Commonwealth Bank leading the sector higher after gaining 68 cents, or 1.28 per cent, at $53.75. Many retailers lost ground, however, as ...

IOOF new sales head

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... include division director and head of sales at Macquarie Specialist Investments and a private client adviser with ANZ Private Bank. IOOF said it chose Kellet from a shortlist of about 35 candidates due to his extensive links with the independent market. ...

Let's party!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... zilch, nil, nada. Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig had objected at every FOMC meeting since 2010 over the central bank's easy policy stance. He even called the US$600 billion QE2 a "dangerous gamble" and a "bargain with the devil". Philadelphia ...