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Suncorp buoyed by super and investments

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
Suncorp Life, which covers the company's life insurance, superannuation, investment and asset management businesses, contributed $222 million to the group's bottom line, almost a third of the parent's total earnings. On a relative basis, the division ...

Timing the market still a tough game: survey

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
The CMC Markets Share Trader Insight Survey for the six months to July 2010 found that the periods in which most investors decided to put extra cash into the market corresponded with peaks in the All Ordinaries Index, while many pulled out just before ...

Snowball stays on track

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
Snowball Group Limited saw funds under management and advice rise 19 per cent to $4.8 billion and management is planning for a busy year ahead. Snowball announced that its underlying NPAT up 2 per cent to $6.2 million, while its funds under management ...

Rising markets boost Perpetual's bottom line

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
Perpetual Limited reported full year net profits after tax of $90.5 million in the year to June, representing a 140 per cent increase on last year's result, and well above the company's previously issued guidance. The company's Private Wealth division ...

ISS co-founder leaves proxy advice industry

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
A prominent face of the Australia proxy advice industry has signaled his departure after ISS Australian operations co-founder Dean Paatsch announced that he is leaving the governance advisory firm after six years. Paatsch's history is that of being ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
Another week, another bad start for Wall Street as the bears continue to loiter the financial playground, scaring the bulls away from the equities roller coaster ride and directing them into the bond market fun house. With no major data release out ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
The Australian share market was flat in morning trade, as mining stocks buoyed by the election outcome offset mixed results in other sectors. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 2.7 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 4,433.6 points, while the ...

AQR wins $330m-plus insto mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
Less than three months after AQR launched its Global Enhanced Equity Fund, the firm has received $337 million in mandates from three institutional investors - and is well on track to reach the $620 million mark. Jeff Dunn, head of AQR's Australian institutional ...

Challenger back in the black, annuity sales trebles

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
Challenger Financial Services has staged a strong profit recovery during the year, buoyed by a record performance from its annuities business and a 22 per cent rise in gross assets under management to almost $24 billion. The group reported results this ...

Hung

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
By now many of you, fellow Australians, would have had enough of the commentaries, in-depth analyses, finger-pointing, spins, recriminations, soul searching, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera that preceded and followed last Saturday's Australian elections. ...