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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket was firmly in the red at noon, weighed down by mining stocks following largely softer metals prices overnight and a flat US lead. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 73.2 points, or 1.73 per cent, at 4,148.3 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
The Australian share market had lost more than one per cent at noon, moving below the four-year lows reached on Friday amid worldwide recession fears. The bourse was being dragged down by financial stocks and hampered by weaker crude oil prices and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after Wall Street surged overnight. At 0734 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was up 130 points at 4,288. In economic news, Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Neuberger Berman pledges money guarantee

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
Lehman Brothers subsidiary Neuberger Berman Management has put up its hand to be a part of the US Treasury Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds. The trustee board of bankrupt Lehman Brothers' asset management arm, along with all other ...

PIS creates NZ advice giant

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
Professional Investment Services New Zealand (PIS NZ) and Newpark Financial Services are expected to merge and create New Zealand's largest financial advisory group with more than 250 advisers and 130 accounting firms. Robbie Bennetts, PIS chief executive ...

PE firms gobble Lehman Bros AM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
Neuberger Berman, a subsidiary of the now defunct Lehman Brothers, along with a huge slice of the parent company's asset management business has been sold for $2.7 billion to private equity giants Bain Capital Partners and Hellman & Friedman. The transaction ...

Fortis bank $19.5bn bail-out 'stabilises' FIA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
The part nationalisation of European banking giant Fortis will not affect the operations of its local subsidiary, Fortis Investments Australia, nor put FIA's $6 billion in funds at risk, said FIA's chief executive Ian Manton-Hall. The fate of Fortis ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
The Australian share market was weaker at noon, dragged down by the resources sector. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 13.4 points lower, or 0.27 per cent, to 4968.5, while the broader All Ordinaries lost 10.9 points, or 0.22 per cent, to ...

AMP Capital appoints infra co-head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
AMP Capital Investors has appointed Xiao Wei as co-head of Infrastructure Asia. Xiao, who will be based in Beijing, will work with Anoop Seth, co-head of Infrastructure Asia based in Mumbai to source infrastructure investments for the new wholesale ...

SWIFT fast tracks insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
Messaging platform giant SWIFT has inked a deal with some of the largest insurers and reinsurers in the world that will enable insurers, brokers and reinsurers move from paper-based admin processing to an automated format using a standardised industry ...