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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower on falls of more than 1.5 per cent on Wall Street overnight and lower metal prices in London. At 0816 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was down 110 points ...

Super gap widens between haves and have-nots

One of the largest regular surveys conducted on super has confirmed the increasing gap between those who can afford to retire and those who can't. Twice a year, financial services giant AMP asks more than 320,000 of its AMP Corporate Super members to ...

Aviva Investors the new force in GAM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
Aviva is merging ten of its global asset managers under one banner, Aviva Investors, creating a new $660 billion-plus player in the managed funds sector. From September this year, the merged operation will include UK-based Morley Fund Management, North ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
The Australian stock market was firmly in the black at noon on the back of third straight day of gains on Wall Street and stronger commodity prices overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 71.3 points at 5,737.4 while the broader ...

Bullen heads MacarthurCook real estate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
Melbourne-based boutique fund manager MacarthurCook Limited has appointed Russell Bullen to head the firm's real estate department. Bullen brings over 15 years of real estate experience in the US and Australia to MacarthurCook, including his expertise ...

Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
Rage and accusations are now rearing their ugly heads as embattled councils attempt to recoup their losses from sub-prime backed CDO investments, but the crisis could spark a government rethink on how councils should invest their funds. Hugh McLernon ...

AMP posts 47pc growth in fin services

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
AMP has announced solid full year cashflows for 2007, including a whopping 47 per cent growth in its financial services business, which includes the firm's retail and wholesale superannuation divisions. AMP's underlying profit increased 10 per cent ...

Property back to fair value

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
The Australian property securities sector has been undeniably hard hit by the US credit liquidity crisis and ailing stockmarket, but industry punters believe that the sector is going through a rebirth of correction - and now returning to a "fair value" ...

Our rates a global sideshow

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
Slowing world growth, a collapsing US dollar and a still very nervous global credit market won't slow down world capital flows but rather increase them, said McKinsey in its latest newsletter. "Amid the turmoil, it's easy to forget that long-term structural ...

Something interesting about rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
There may be a debate emerging about whether we really do have an inflation problem, but inflation is a hugely significant problem that should never go unchecked. Prompting the discussion is that remedies to attack it are seen by some commentators as ...