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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 23 points higher at 4378. In economic news on Wednesday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor financial system, Malcolm Edey, addresses the Retail Financial Services Forum 2009 on ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... the market." BHP Billiton was four cents lower at $37.09, while Rio Tinto was down 10 cents at $57.00. National Australia Bank fell one cent to $27.07 after announcing it would pay $285 million to buy Challenger Financial Services Group's mortgage management ...

Challenger to ramp up life and funds mgmt after mortgage sale

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... mortgage management division to NAB for $385 million. This morning NAB and Challenger confirmed newspaper reports that the bank will acquire Challenger's mortgage distribution and multi-brand lending businesses, along with around $4 billion worth of ...

Westpoint auditors get just desserts

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... including 10 projects using unsecured mezzanine finance (a form of fund raising that covers the difference between available bank finance and the cost of the project). It created mezzanine companies for each of these projects and raised funds for the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... Exchange, the September share price index contract was 45 points lower at 4317. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) releases minutes of its August 4 monetary policy meeting and the Melbourne Institute issues its wages report ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... while rival Rio Tinto lost $1.44 or 2.4 per cent to $58.55. Australia's major lenders also lost ground, with Commonwealth Bank (CBA) leading the sell-off after its stock went ex-dividend on Monday. CBA's shares were $1.29 or 2.74 per cent lower at $45.73 ...

Super fund tech still lags: KPMG

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... funds however in many respects we were disappointed," Feyzeny said. Superannuation accounts operate in the same space as bank accounts and fund members expect to see at least the same degree of access. "Members need and expect to be provided with abundant ...

Westpac FP maintains focus on senior planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... netting 30 experienced financial planners is lower than expected, Mark Spiers, general manager of advice at Westpac, said the bank had been forced to deal with the St. George merger, the credit crisis and also fill vacancies left by financial planners ...

Fear not a rate rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... opinions that remain, are betrayed by current interest rate futures trading - implying a 50/50 probability that the Reserve Bank will start lifting interest rates by November this year and a better than even chance it would do so by February 2010. Governor ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... index futures contract was 45 points higher at 4447 on volume of 17,599 contracts. The four major banks were up. Commonwealth Bank shares were 18 cents higher at $47.71, and Westpac was up 34 cents at $24.59, while ANZ gained 49 cents or 2.43 per cent ...