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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... rose 49 cents to $29.46 while rival Rio Tinto was up 52 cents to $47.17. The banking sector was mixed. National Australia Bank added four cents to $17.60, Commonwealth Bank lost 13 cents to $29.12, Westpac rose 13 cents to $16.38, and ANZ was up five ...

IBM Cognos measures credit risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
Financial services firms will turn to IT systems that can alert them sooner to credit risk issues, particularly with the government-led bail-put programs making them accountable to their country's regulatory and political heads. Laurence Trigwell, global ...

Capital protected products gain popularity

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... three months to December last year. AXA is not the only financial firm offering capital protection products. Commonwealth Bank for instance recently launched Capital Series Australia II, also a capital protected investment product to entice investors ...

Comm Bank opens cap protected product

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
Commonwealth Bank has launched a capital protected investment product, Capital Series Australia II. The product provides two strategies; one gives investors total capital protection at maturity, with the potential for up to 80 per cent capital growth ...

Lonsec 'recommends' Instreet DPA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... next two years, these clients will participate in upswing while currently enjoying the security of the government guaranteed bank deposits."

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... lower on Tuesday while Wall Street bounced up because of bargain-hunting, as investors remained unconvinced by Washington's bank rescue strategy, analysts said. London's FTSE 100 index lost 0.89 per cent, or 34.29 points to 3,816.44. FRANKFURT - The ...

Sovereign funds lose out after bank bail-out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... concert with the Federal Reserve and other related agencies, announced that it would put the major US banks, such as Citi and Bank of America, through an evaluation test that would assess whether they needed additional capital buffer. But unlike the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... 68 cents, or 2.32 per cent, at $28.63, while Rio Tinto had lost 98 cents, or 2.09 per cent, to $45.89. National Australia Bank lost 41 cents to $17.39, Commonwealth Bank sank 69 cents to $28.89, Westpac fell 16 cents to $16.16, and ANZ decreased 17 cents ...

REST ramps up credit exposure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... million Stone Tower's Offshore Credit fund in December. Damian Hill, REST chief executive, said the fund researched credit and bank loan sectors to find the best opportunities since the middle of last year. Both investment mandates came from the fund's ...

Bell profit hit by bad markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
Stock broking and financial advisory firm, Bell Financial Group, saw profit after tax fell almost 60 per cent to more than $14 million last year. The group posted more than $175 million in revenue for the 12 months to December last year, down more than ...