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New chapter in savings after government guarantee ends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... soon reverse. Glenn Feben, head of fixed interest at Perennial, said the guarantee "was always going to be removed at some stage". "With investor risk appetite having recovered and the financal crisis passed, the government have judged, correctly in ...

Aviva key personnel disbanded after NAB buy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... of Aviva's nine-member executive team. However, a NAB spokesperson said that they cannot make any announcements at this stage regarding staffing and appointments. They are still working through the design phase of the integration and should be able to ...

Macquarie in talks with Charter Hall

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... manager of Macquarie Office Trust and Macquarie CountryWide Trust, noted ASX releases last Friday. "It's speculative at this stage... [but] the way you need to look at it is, Charter Hall could be roped in as the partner to run Macquarie's real estate ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... Cameron Securities client adviser Adrian Leppinus said several factors had combined to prompt the sell-off. "It's a multi-stage attack and it's only gotten worse during the day," he said. "The big thing is Rio Tinto is very weak (because) the joint venture ...

Standard Life fined $4m for bad marketing

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... further compensation was needed. Standard Life Assurance fully cooperated with the FSA and agreed to settle at an early stage of the investigation, which granted them a 30 per cent discount in the penalty. "Throughout 2010 and beyond, the FSA will continue ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... in the dollar pushed commodity prices sharply lower, hurting stocks of energy companies and materials producers. At one stage, the Dow Jones industrial average had fallen 185 points from a 15-month high, its biggest drop since October 30. Demand for ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... crisis that continue to worry governments and central banks of many developed economies has elevated China onto the world stage. Latest reports show that China has already overtaken Germany's national output to become the world's third biggest economy. ...

Rationalise me

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... in the paper were those developed in consultation with a panel of experts and do not represent government policy at this stage. This proposals paper follows on from an issues paper on product rationalisation published in June 2007. The paper contains ...

ETFs delve deeper into China

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... investors could now access the specific sectors within China and benefit from liquidity and transparency through ETFs. At this stage local investors can access China using the iShares FTSE/Xinhusa China 25, which has been one of the most popular ETFs ...

Beware consumer staples: Lincoln

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
The $90 billion consumer staples sector is showing signs of strain and the number of distressed stocks are increasing, said Lincoln Indicators. The latest Health of the Market report by Lincoln Indicators noted that around 24 per cent of consumer staples ...