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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... while National Australia Bank was down 19 cents at $34.59. Telstra was half a cent higher at 5.085. Shares in struggling rural services company Elders rose half a cent, or more than four per cent, to 12 cents after it announced the immediate departure ...

Investors unwise to flee emerging markets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... of the trends that have driven emerging-market productivity over the past decade (such as the migration in China of cheap rural labour to work in urban factories) had weakened, as had other growth drivers such as domestic credit expansion, declining ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower despite a positive lead from Wall Street where The Dow and S&P 500 blasted to new records in erly trade. At 0928 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 19 points at 5,379. ...

La Trobe launches SMSF loan product

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... launched a new self-managed super fund (SMSF) loan product, allowing borrowers to buy residential, retail, commercial or rural property. La Trobe said launched the new product, which offers finance at 5.6%, in a bid to tap into the burgeoning SMSF market ...

Customers accuse NAB of "predatory lending" in Senate inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013
... own. At least four consumers have lodged submissions to the Senate inquiry with complaints involving NAB. Peter Brandson, a rural doctor, said that his family was "severely damaged by the NAB and its predatory lending practices." Brandson explained that ...

MyState appoints new chairman

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
MyState Limited has appointed Miles Hampton as chairman after Dr Michael Vertigan AC stepped down, the company announced at its annual general meeting yesterday. Hampton is currently chairman of the MyState Limited Board's Group Risk Committee and is ...

NAB Asset Servicing wins Prime Super contract

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013
... has hung onto its contract to provide custodial services to Prime Super. The $ 1.6 billion industry fund for regional and rural Australia has been a client of NAB Asset Servicing since 2007 and has awarded a further five year contract to the custodian. ...

Elders to axe 10% of workforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... said that Elders will reorganise "as a pure agribusiness, with a sustainable capital structure and operations." A number of rural and regional branch offices will be closed or consolidated into larger branches, the company added. The jobs will be cut ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... releases housing finance data for July, the ANZ releases its job advertisements series for month just ended and the Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey is due out. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Friday closed flat as investors ...

AustSafe gets MySuper approval

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
Queensland-based industry fund AustSafe Super has been granted its MySuper licence. The fund, which serves rural and regional industries and communities in Queensland, has 130,000 members and funds under management of just under $1.5 billion. AustSafe ...