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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... to open lower following the lead of international markets overnight after comments from European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi. At 0646 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was DOWN 11 points at 4,883. In comments ...

Gone in 60 seconds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... past when head honchos' heads rolled in Europe and, like Berlusconi (who's not even elected yet), the sitting French President Hollande has also campaigned on an anti-austerity platform. I can still taste the fear back then. Yet to this day, the single ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... say. The euro climbed to $1.3562 meanwhile, from $1.3514 late on Monday with traders shrugging off a call by French President Francois Hollande that markets alone should not be in control of exchange rates. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies closed ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... 6.5% -- it remained at 7.8% last month - in spite of growing worries among some FOMC officials. There's St. Louis Fed President Bullard worried that the Fed's current policy is "a very aggressive policy, and it is making me a little bit nervous that ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... consecutive gain and the highest reading in two years - from 51.5 in the previous month. Expect more data improvement once President-elect Xi Jinping and PM-elect Li Keqiang formally take up their positions this coming March. The betterer. The US labour ...

GFG Group partners with Attra to boost payment service

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... integration and consulting services to clients in the banking, finance and payments industry. GFG Group's senior vice president of marketing and sales Wayne Robinson said the partnership would bring economies of scale, open up new markets and enable ...

TAL hires new chief actuary

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... extensive industry experience in both Australia and the UK," said TAL's chief financial officer Kent Griffin. Rowley was president of the Actuaries Institute in 2007, and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland in 2009 ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... that Congressional Republicans in the US had planned to vote for the debt ceiling to be extended for three months as President Barack Obama sorts out the budget and a long-term strategy for government spending cuts. But the Australian market reaction ...

Interviews start soon for new AIST CEO

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... and disclosure reforms and been a key driver in improving retirement outcomes for low income earners and women," AIST president Cate Wood said in November last year. Under Reynolds' stewardship, AIST has grown into a well-resourced and active industry ...

ACSI founder remembered for services to Super

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... organisations including IFS and ACSI, the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors, of which he was the founding President for the first 10 years of ACSI's existence. "He was a true gentleman who has left a significant legacy for the betterment ...