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Shareholder activism at the Future Fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... the Future Fund has been further reinforced after it voted against all three resolutions proposed at the Telstra AGM on Friday. The fund's board of governors voted against a proposal to appoint Nora Scheinkestel as a new director of Telstra. It also ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... designed to contain rising food and commodity prices. And in case you missed it, the PBOC's decision on the reserve ratio last Friday was the second in as many weeks and number five this year. Yes, you can interpret that to mean that the politburo is ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... Fortescue Metals Group Ltd, which is expected to run for four days. There is no economics news scheduled for Monday. On Friday, the Australian share market closed lower on Friday, as speculation of more interest rate rises in China dampened investor ...

Market Wrap - Morning

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving strong, positive leads as offshore trading continues on Friday morning, with Wall Street's and Europe's key indices substantially higher, as are precious and base metals and oil. On the ASX24 at 0627 AEDT, the December ...

AMP unveils $6.34 per share bid for AXA

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... minority shareholders at least $6.43 per share in a combination of cash and AMP scrip. Shares in AXA-APH closed at $5.78 on Friday. AMP would issue $600 million of subordinated debt, sub-underwritten by AXA SA to fund its cash contribution to the transaction ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... its second quarter and half-year. OneSteel and Centro Retail are amongst companies holding annual general meetings. On Friday, the Australian share market closed weaker after troubling economic news from around the world prompted profit-taking. The benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
Australian markets are expected to open weaker on Friday, as Wall Street fell after a weak outlook from technology giant Cisco weighed on investor concerns about future profits. On the ASX24 at 0613 AEDT, the December share price index contract was ...

New board at India Equities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
Investors at India Equities Fund voted against the board's proposed return of capital at last Friday's EGM, replacing them with three new directors nominated by shareholder GW Holdings. The directors of India Equities Fund previously said that if shareholders ...

Platinum feels the force of term deposits

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... bank term deposits is intense," Platinum Asset Management's chairman Michael Cole told investors in his AGM address on Friday. "Bank deposits offer real rates of return of around 4 per cent per annum. This is similar to the projected returns of a balanced ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... year results. They will be DuluxGroup's inaugural annual figures, after the company was spun out of Orica last July. On Friday, the Australian share market climbed over one per cent to a fresh six-month high as investors snapped up resources stocks amid ...