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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
The Australian share market was weaker at noon on Friday, following a negative lead from Wall Street overnight. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 40.5 points lower, by 0.87 per cent, at 4,593.1 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

BlackRock appoints new MD for Brazil

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
BlackRock has appointed Luiz Felipe Andrade as managing director and country head of Brazil, who will be responsible for expanding BlackRock's footprint in the country. Andrade will lead a local team of 16 professionals located in BlackRock's Brazil ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
There were snippets of good news overnight although on the whole, they were just that -snippets. Bad news dominated the headlines. There was more of the same confusing data out of America. Jobless claims rose by 12,000 in the week ending 18 September ...

Ausbil Dexia signs ESG deal with CAER

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
Ausbil Dexia has signed up for environmental, social and governance (ESG) research services from Canberra-based CAER. The employee-owned, boutique fund manager's ESG product, the Dexia Sustainable Global Equity Fund (DSEF), was established back in 2004 ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
Let it rip boys! US equities closed weaker while we were sleeping apparently still reeling from the previous day's FOMC assessment that the US economy remains weak. Ok, let's give it that. But Bloomberg took it a bit farther. "The Fed said yesterday ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
The Australian share market was stronger at noon, as news from America buoyed banking stocks. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 10 points, or 0.22 per cent, at 4,627.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen 10.6 points ...

CommInsure wins industry fund mandates

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
CommInsure has won two mandates to provide risk insurance services to industry funds Care Super and Vision Super. Vision Super has appointed CommInsure for the fund's self-insured death and total and permanent disablement (TPD) insurances. This deal ...

Netwealth partners with AIA on insurance

NEWS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Netwealth Investments has launched LifeWRAP, a new integrated insurance facility for netwealth platform clients, developed with insurer AIA. LifeWRAP provides netwealth planners and advisers with a centralised platform, enabling them to service not ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
All dressed up and nowhere to go. Yup! Wall Street went nowhere alright. A day before last night's Federal Open Market Committee Meeting (FOMC), Wall Street was all prepped, seemingly ready to take it all, whatever the Fed decides - or more, importantly ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
The Australian stock market at noon on Tuesday was higher, following a rise on United States markets overnight. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 14.9 points, or 0.32 per cent, at 4,646.2, while the broader All Ordinaries index had ...