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New fin planning chief at UniSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... advice services at BT Financial Services Group. Prior to his stint at BT, Davies held senior positions with the Commonwealth Bank, Colonial and the Lend Lease Group in product management and financial planning. He had also practiced as a solicitor specialising ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US stocks gained on better-than-expected earnings reports from Citigroup and General Electric. Gold miners may decline after the precious metal fell on Friday. At 0733 AEST on the Sydney Futures ...

Risk of indigestion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
Whoa boy! Take it easy. How many times have we been admonished by our elders to chew our food slowly right in the middle of chomping down a big chunk of that juicy, tender, savoury steak? Not once, not twice but many, many times. Because it is the me ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
The Australian share market was stronger at noon AEST, with local banking stocks in particular benefiting from positive sentiment in the US financial sector. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 68.9 points, or 1.81 per cent, at 3,844.3, while ...

HSBC appoints Davis as Indian CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
HSBC has appointed HSBC Bank Australia chief executive, Stuart Davis, as chief executive of the group's operations in India but leaves the Australian role empty. Davis' replacement will be announced "shortly" a statement from the firm said. Meanwhile ...

Fiji Reserve Bank imposes credit controls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... the day. They look to have little choice but to co-operate with harsh new regulations imposed on them by the Fiji Reserve Bank on Wednesday. The Fiji Reserve said weighted average lending rates must return to the level they were at as at 31 December ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... to 865.30. LONDON - European stock markets posted solid gains on Thursday, powered by a healthy profit performance at US bank JPMorgan Chase, but the better-than-expected results failed to inspire Wall Street. The London FTSE 100 index of leading shares ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... expected profit rises in the US after Goldman (Sachs) came out with a pretty good result," he said. However, improved US bank profits would be based on changes to mark-to-market accounting rules by the US Financial Accounting Standards Board on April ...

Bank guarantee must stay in place

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
The government should resist pressure to change the guarantee on wholesale bank funding, according to the head of debt capital markets at a leading investment bank. A director in capital market origination at Citi, David Bailey, said arguments that ...

Cutting SG a disaster: Keating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... cuts in official interest rate cuts despite research showing their funding costs have decreased in recent months, leading to bank's increasing their profitability following the collapse in competition from non-bank lenders.