Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1181 - 1190 of 1600 results for "Steve"

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
The Australian market has flat to negative leads from trading offshore overnight, with Wall Street marginally higher, but European and Asian markets generally lower. Precious and base metals were lower in New York, although oil was slightly higher. ...

Securitor awards top practices and advisers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
Westpac-owned dealer group Securitor caps its annual conference this month with the handing of awards to their best practices and financial advisers in 2009. Brad Cooper, chief executive of BT Financial Group, the wealth management business of Westpac ...

CFS appoints Core Equity Services for brokerage

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
Colonial First State Custom Solutions has appointed Commonwealth Bank-owned Core Equity Services as its default broker for the FirstWrap platform. Chris Stevens said selecting the broking firm as the default broker for FirstWrap and white label platforms ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... huge movement anywhere in particular, but the energy sector and the miners are doing pretty well," CommSec market analyst Steve Daghlian said. "For the week, the market has gained about one per cent." In the energy sector at 1206 AEST, Woodside was 24 ...

How high and how long

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." These words from Charles Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities, have again been brought to life by two opposing monetary prescriptions by two central banks - further interest rate hikes for the ...

Contango clients top up mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
Contango Asset Management's institutional clients have been topping up their small cap investment mandates as the sector's benchmark returned 63 per cent in the year to February. David Stevens, managing director at Contango Asset Management, said more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
The Australian stock market has received positive leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street closing higher, metals prices stronger and oil prices firmer. At 0720 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 16 points ...

Alaska SWF tips $1bn into investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... the Permanent Fund's portfolio because it provides returns in line with high- yield bonds but at lower risk levels," said Steve Frank, chair of the board at APFC. The investment meeting also resulted in GMO being approved as a real return manager. GMO ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
The Australian stock market has received mostly positive leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street finishing higher and precious and base metals prices firmer, although oil prices were weaker. At 0735 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
The Australian share market received mixed leads from Wall Street, with higher precious metal prices and a lower oil price. At 0726 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was two points lower at 4,901 points. In economic ...