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ANZIIF names new committee members

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance has appointed three new members to the Academic Council and another to the General Insurance Advisory Committee. Philip Maguire, principal at Professional Financial Solutions; Tiina Takolander ...

AMP Capital targets Japanese savings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... despite the poor performing stock market," he said. "Local rates are particularly low so the return from leaving money in bank accounts is around 0.5 per cent, so there's a strong demand for income type products and specialist investment products like ...

African women suffer most: World Bank

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... serious impact not just on the finances of African women but on their mortality rates too, said Obiageli Ezekwesili, World Bank vice president for the Africa Region. The global economic crisis will drastically reduce African women's individual incomes ...

ME Bank searches for CEO

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
Members Equity Bank has begun its hunt for a new chief executive, following an announcement in May that the board of Industry Super Holdings was splitting its top job among two CEOs. As a result of these changes Anthony Wamsteker - the previous group ...

Get into corporate bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
High quality corporate bonds will rise and offer a fresh opportunity for Australian investors over the short to medium term, despite an expected surge in government debt issuance, said Aberdeen Asset Management. Aberdeen predicts Australian corporate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... settlement of their claims from Opes Prime's bankers. On Thursday, the Australian share market closed flat after falling bank stocks ended this week's rally and investment bank Macquarie Group and Macquarie Airports went into a trading halt. The benchmark ...

Get into corporate bonds: Aberdeen

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
High quality corporate bonds will rise and offer a unique opportunity for Australian investors over the short to medium term, despite an expected surge in government debt issuance, said Aberdeen Asset Management. Aberdeen predicts Australian corporate ...

When it's too late

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Move on people...nothing to see here. Move on. Aussie investors relying on overnight movements on Wall Street to show them what today's trading activity has in store for them in their own market - up, down or upside down - would have to (gulp!) rely ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... Exchange, the September share price index contract was six points lower at 4,031. In economic news on Thursday, the Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor of financial markets, Guy Debelle, addresses a Whitlam Institute Forum at the University ...

Financial planning is key: Westpac

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Westpac chief executive and managing director, Gail Kelly, said in a briefing yesterday that the bank's financial planning business is central to Westpac's multi-brand strategy. Speaking at the Trans-Tasman Business Circle lunch briefing, Kelly said ...