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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... $34.56 at 1209 AEST and Rio Tinto had gained 22 cents to $51.22. The big four banks were mixed. At 1210 AEST, Commonwealth Bank had put on 29 cents to $38.95, ANZ had dipped 13 cents to $16.27, National Australia Bank had fallen 14 cents to $22.16 and ...

Perennial launches fixed int fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... fixed interest assets. The Perennial Tactical Fixed Interest Trust aims to provide investment returns over a combined UBS Bank Bill Index and UBS Composite Bond Index. The firm launched the product following demand from financial advisers and clients ...

J.P. Morgan grants $1.3 bn HFoF mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... Morgan selected Arden Asset Management to manage a $1.3 billion proprietary hedge fund of funds portfolio for the investment bank. The deal means J.P. Morgan will seed seven of the hedge fund manager's funds and invest in Arden Asset Management's flagship ...

The quest for independent advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... time when revenues are down because of the GFC. This opens up buying opportunities for the bigger players, particularly the bank-aligned financial planning firms. According to Peatey, planning firms with total revenues of more than $1.5 million are ideal ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... at 3884 on a volume of 10,374 contracts. Financial stocks led the way, with the big banks uniformly stronger. Commonwealth Bank shares were trading at $38.50, up 95 cents at 1203 AEST. Shares in the National Australia Bank rose 66 cents, to $22.16, Westpac ...

Banking customers get free anti-virus upgrade

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... and internet security specialist AVG signed a deal to provide a free trial of the tech company's security software to the bank's clients. The bank's customers receive a 90-day trial and a 15 per cent discount licence on the AVG Internet Security software ...

Rev mortgage guide "out of date": RBS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has criticised a reverse mortgage report - citing it contains case studies that are out of date. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and Paul Clitheroe led Australian Government Financial Literacy ...

ESI Super appoints NAB as custodian

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
The Electricity Supply Industry Superannuation Fund (Queensland) has appointed National Australia Bank as custodian of its invested assets. According to a May newsletter to members, the ESI Super trustee had appointed NAB as its new custodian, and said ...

Up yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
See my finger? Yes, the middle one. No. The statement is not to gloat about Wall Street's overnight jump proving my call for a continuation of the equity market uptrend correct. Speaking of which, America's major stock market indexes jumped 2 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... last three months and there isn't a lot of catalyst for that momentum to continue," Mr Spiteri said. "We saw that the World Bank's comments earlier this week impacted across most markets around the world (which) fell 2-3 per cent, and now they have just ...