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AAP | TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2007

... after a bid for the company was rejected. James Packer's Ellerston GEMS Fund today makes its share market debut. In Adelaide, IBM Australia & New Zealand chief executive Glen Boreham speaks at Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce function. Australian ...

Innovation index ranks finance and insurance second

... as the second most innovative industry behind to the wholesale trade sector. The index was the outcome of a joint study by IBM Australia and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne University, which looked at the level ...

US pension funds no longer the big boys

... the report said. For example, in 2000, 15 out of the top 20 funds were US-based including General Motors, General Electric, IBM, Lucent Technologies and Boeing. By 2005, only General Motors remains in the rankings but has since slipped from number 7 ...

Asia Pac fin services IT spend reach $2.3 trillion

... an investment in IT infrastructure and hence more servers," said Uko Tian, principal analyst at Gartner. The big winner is IBM, which took the lion's share of 42 per cent of server revenues in the region. Hewlett-Packard was number two with 22 per cent ...

Oracle predicts more IT collaboration

... compete less with their peers, according to Oracle Australia's chief, Stephen Jack, after the group signed a landmark deal with IBM and i-flex. Jack said that there's been a paradigm shift in how IT providers traditionally do their business. "What our ...

Russell and IBM enter strategic relationship for fund admin

Russell Investment Group has teamed up with IBM in a seven-year $140m Business Transformation Outsourcing agreement. The agreement means IBM will take over the operation of Russell's Member Administration Service Centre in Australia, which is essentially ...

Another international DB fund bites the dust

WWW.THESHEET.COM | THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2006

... restructure of the NAB scheme just adds more casualties to the growing list of DB funds around the world, especially since IBM has just announced the closure of their DB fund. In Australia, DB funds, after decades of being the premier superannuation ...

Market wrap

AAP | WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2006

... overnight with investors on edge over a $2 surge in oil prices and the prospect of corporate earnings, with Dow components IBM and Intel Corp set to report after the closing bell. As fourth quarter earnings season ramped up a notch, concern mounted that ...

US defined benefit scheme shake-out continues

In a pre-emptive move to avoid the pension-related miseries of General Motors, US computer giant IBM announced it will close its defined benefit retirement scheme to new employees in favour of a 401(k) system. IBM is the latest of a raft of multinational ...

Market Wrap

AAP | WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2005

... released. NEW YORK - US stocks rose, boosted by demand for technology shares after brokerage price target upgrades for Apple and IBM. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 21.85 points at 10,856.86. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 1.61 points ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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