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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was down 89 points at 4,009. In news today, National Australia Bank releases its monthly business survey for October. The NSW government releases its mini-budget. In company news, Insurance ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... massive economic stimulus plan, which has boosted appetite among local investors for commodity based stocks. Also, the Reserve Bank of Australia has indicated there is more work to be done in cutting interest rates as it tries to strike the balance between ...

MTAA Super is fund of the year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
MTAA Super has been awarded SelectingSuper's Fund of the Year by the Rainmaker Group beating finalists that included other star performers and market innovators HESTA Super, AustralianSuper, Host-Plus and CBUS. MTAA Super achieved its award after being ...

Perpetual mortgage funds reopen

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... Monthly Income and Mortgage Funds on 23 October. The move followed the government's announcement last month on guarantees for bank deposits, which in turn prompted a sharp increase in redemptions from mortgage funds across the industry. Perpetual's group ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... asset markets dive -- too much to bear. This is why in a week where other central banks were cutting interest rates, the Bank of England (BoE) produced the mother of all rate cuts. Last week central banks in Australia, South Korea, India, Czechoslovakia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... problems with the supply of market information, this price is as at 0759 AEDT on November 8.) In news today, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases housing finance ...

Toowoomba planner banned

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Desmond Blinco of Toowomba has been banned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission from providing financial services for 15 months after evidence emerged that he is an undischarged bankrupt. ASIC banned Blinco because of his undischarged ...

Credit Agricole enters ETF market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... Agricole group intends to win significant market share rapidly in this fast growing industry," said Baudson. In August, Deutsche Bank's European based ETF platform raised more than $25 billion of assets in 18 months, making it the third largest ETF provider ...

S&P ramps up research division

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... division and creating an "out of cycle" ratings team to review new products. The ratings firm hired former Westpac Private Bank senior manager; Graham Fox, former Aegis Equities Research head; Rodney Lay, previous Colonial First State analyst, Shane ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... shapes and sizes are not just tweedling their thumbs waiting for the sky to fall. The Australian government and the Reserve Bank are among these authorities taking pre-emptive action. This is why the MYEFO report of a reduced fiscal surplus from A$21.7 ...