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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... performance in 2008/09, despite "significant demand contraction" in a weak global economy. The banks were mixed. Commonwealth Bank was down 55 cents at $39.20, Westpac fell 23 cents to $20.08 and ANZ rose nine cents to $16.86. NAB is in the process of ...

Yellow Brick Road drops acquisition strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Yellow Brick Road, the financial planning business developed by Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris, has dumped its acquisition strategy for an organic growth branch model - with the aim to open 150 practices in three years. Bouris said the business' ...

AIA Aus hires Telecom CEO to board

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... the telecommunications firms between 1999 and 2007. Before joining Telecom, Gattung was chief manager of marketing for the Bank of New Zealand and had also held a number of positions at National Mutual and TVNZ. "Theresa brings with her a wealth of knowledge ...

Macq Private Wealth seeks advisers and alliances

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Macquarie Private Wealth is on the hunt for more strategic alliances and looking to add to its adviser numbers. MPW, which currently has 426 advisers, full service stockbrokers and private bankers in Australia and New Zealand, most recently formed a ...

Smartphones and 3Gs boost fin services

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... also highly dependent on device technology and high bandwidth (3G) networks. Despite this, the convenience of having one's bank accounts in the palm of one's hand is a huge draw among users. ComScore noted that 31 per cent of mobile customers choose ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases consumer price index data for the June quarter. The Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor of financial markets, Guy Debelle, takes part in a panel discussion at a Mortgage Finance ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... $1.40, or 2.62 per cent, at $54.80 and rival BHP Billiton up 21 cents at $36.21. Locally, the banks were weaker. Commonwealth Bank was down 39 cents at $39.51, Westpac fell nine cents to $20.15, ANZ fell 11 cents to $16.76 and NAB was down 16 cents at ...

Mercer Sentinel hires two

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... efforts on investment operations and providing transition management services. Prior to Mercer, Thakur worked within Macquarie Bank's real estate investment banking business, where among other responsibilities, he undertook valuation modelling, risk ...

LPTs recover and show value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Australia's listed property trust (LPT) sector has jumped over 13 per cent in the three months to May and could provide a good value play for financial planning clients if you're prepared to do your homework. Louis Christopher, head of property at Adviser ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... about investor psychology. Ahh, yes...that unquantifiable and fickle human emotion. Let me put it this way. There's a US non-bank lender called CIT Group. It nearly went belly up, threatening the financing lifeline of large number - reportedly in the ...