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No let up in ING asset sales

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... services in the Benelux, US, Central Europe, Latin America and Asia. What caused the grief was ING's huge exposure to US sub-prime mortgages which the Dutch government decided to indemnify rather than force into a siphoned-off so-called government sponsored ...

Costello joins Future Fund board

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... mandate," said Murray. But Costello's appointment has drawn fire from high profile figures, including former treasurer and Prime Minister Paul Keating. An ABC news report yesterday noted Keating criticised Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's decision to appoint ...

AIOFP elects new board for PCM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Members of the Association of Independently-Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) have elected a new board to oversee its product manufacturing arm, Personal Choice Management, ahead of a bidding war on which platforms will manage around $4 billion of fund ...

October - an E (entry/exit) point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... cent in the same month. But isn't this exactly the objective of the various fiscal and monetary pump priming measures? To prime consumers - which makes up 70 per cent of the US economy - to spend? The stimulus programs are working! Could it be that after ...

BNY Mellon opens for insto banking

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... also praised BNY for being practically the "last man standing" in the US after the 200-plus year old group survived the sub-prime crisis that wiped out the balance sheets of its peers. "This is in support of our trustee business that we've taken the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
... economy was likely out of recession. In Japan, dealers also focused on the launch of a new centre-left government under Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. Focus will be on the new government and its policies for the coming days, analysts said. The benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... cent, to 3,752.21 points. TOKYO - Dealers stayed on the sidelines while they await the announcement of the cabinet by new prime minister Yukio Hatoyama. The falling value of the yen continues to be a positive factor for exporters. The benchmark Nikkei-225 ...

CMC appoints head of wholesale

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... CFD sales and Tyading where he set up their CFD business and negotiated partnership agreements with third parties such as Prime Broking organisations. CMC Markets recently announced a new partnership with Suncorp Bank for online share trading. Barry ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... to labour data on Thursday, which showed a steady unemployment rate. "Following on from yesterday's confidence given by (Prime Minister Kevin) Rudd who has concerns about employment and will keep the stimulus for as long as need be," he said. Energy ...

How to survive the next market outlier

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... year, there were one too many cases of investors breaking not one but both rules "simultaneously", as was the case with Opes Prime, Westpoint and, the mother of all financial fraud in recent history, Madoff's feeder funds. That's why it's prime time ...