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Trust grows with NZ purchase

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
Trustee services provider Trust Company has acquired the New Zealand-based Guardian Trust Company, a move that adds a hefty $48 billion-plus to its total asset base. John Atkin, chief executive of The Trust Company, said he was very happy with the purchase ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
During these terribly horrible times, particularly for the people of Japan, it would seem callous - perhaps even a sacrilege -- to be contemplating about investing and profiting from what Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan described as the worst since ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight, as world markets reflect uncertainty over the effects of political turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East, and the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. On the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from Wall Street over the weekend, although world markets appear tentative as they assess the impact of the Japanese earthquake on Friday. On the ASX 24 at 0718 AEDT, the March share price index futures ...

The day the earth moved

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
Floods, cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis, what will Mommy Nature unleash next? By now you've surely read or heard about the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on 11 March 2011 and is still wreaking havoc on the world's third biggest economy. The ...

Fund managers to face new norm in liquidity

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... trading venues are mainly shouldered by brokers, fund managers are advised to choose carefully who they execute trades with. Ben Valentine, head of electronic execution sales for Asia, Citi, said gaining access to liquidity remains the greatest challenge ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
The Australian share market is heading for its heaviest weekly fall in about nine months, with further falls on Friday due to rising oil prices and disappointing economic data from the United States and China. At 1208 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ...

Oil outlook flips on economy flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
Dateline 11 March 2011. The "Day of Rage." This was supposed to happen in Saudi Arabia, its end game anticipated to determine of what goes after in the MENA region, the price of crude and the outlook for the global economy. Pure coincidence perhaps ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
The Australian market is receiving strong, negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with foreign markets spooked by the crisis in Libya, and poor data from China, the US and Spain. On the ASX 24 at 0832 AEDT, the March share price index futures ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... unemployment steady at five per cent, according to the median of 11 economists survey by AAP. IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said the local currency lost value following the data's release. "The headline figure of 10,000 jobs being lost was what ...