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Packer cuts Challenger ties

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... help defend his stake in Consolidated Media Holdings against Kerry Stokes' increasing interest in the firm, or to launch a bid to privatise his Crown casino business, noted an article in The Australian last Friday.

More info on super, please

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... fund in a statement. Last but not least members and employers are increasingly taking up the green banner and doing their bid to help the environment. While almost 60 per cent preferred to still read CSRF's newsletter in print, many wanted to see their ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... Treasury bond prices, which drove benchmark yields lower, dampened sentiment as the federal government bought debt in an apparent bid to keep interest rates low, traders said. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 3.32 points, or 0.03 per cent, to 9509.28 ...

City Super adopts weekly unit pricing

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
... according to Rainmaker Information, adopted the changes at the start of last month. The fund has moved to unit pricing in a bid to improve transparency and to better evaluate the value of members' investments. "Unit pricing is a more transparent and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
The Australian share market has received strong, positive leads from overseas markets overnight, with all major overseas stock indices higher. At 0810 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 13 points higher ...

TC Growers closer to buying Timbercorp assets

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... Australia all consider the new process provides the best and fairest opportunity for all concerned." "While we work through the bid process, TC Growers will continue working with all stakeholders with our eyes firmly on the future forestry business we ...

REST to allocate more active Aussie eq mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... future. Hill's comments come at a time when several big industry funds are shifting from an active core to a passive one, in a bid finetune their mandate line-ups and avoid the overlapping of share ownership.

MacarthurCook CEO resigns

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... by AIMS Securities Holdings. Dunstan resigned yesterday, and sold all of his shares not subject to escrow to AIMS under the bid. Dunstan founded the business in 2002 and built the company into a real estate investment management firm operating in the ...

A lose-lose proposition

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... in China last 5 July on suspicion of espionage and stealing state secrets. This comes amid a backdrop of Chinalco's failed bid to buy into Rio last month and negotiations over price discounts for iron ore. But while it is easy to condemn China for its ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
If it were not so serious, I would think that Wall Street's overnight fall was in commiseration to Michael's memorial. Have the green shoots withered and died and are now being buried alongside MJ? The S&P 500 fell by two 2 per cent, the Dow was off ...