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Fund call centres the weakest link

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
Super funds call centres have proven to be the weakest link in a fund's marketing mix, new research shows. Despite being the main hub of communication between a fund and its members, call centres are far measuring their performance customer satisfaction ...

Central bank watch

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
This Week's Market Movers (28 Jul - 1 Aug 2008) Monetary policy comes to the fore this week with the central banks of Australia, the United States, the Eurozone and the UK all meeting to deliberate on appropriate interest rate settings given the growth-inflation ...

Cuscal appoints super BDM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
Cuscal, a traditional provider of wholesale and transactional banking services to retail financial institutions, appointed Helene Upton as national business manager, superannuation. Upton previously worked at Genworth Financial and was responsible for ...

US growth disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
The US equity market's performance continues to be dictated by the inflow of economic indicators during this data-filled week. Australian equities, in turn, dance to its tune. The local bourse maintained its gains at the close of yesterday's trading ...

SEC blocks bank short selling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
US based Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking extreme action against wild 'naked' short selling, issuing an emergency order that prevents the practice across a number of commercial and investment bank stocks. The order means anyone taking ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
The Australian equities market was down at midday, following modest losses on Wall Street overnight, and as investors digested differing broker earnings outlooks for the big banks. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 54.9 points, or ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
The Australian equities market powered ahead at noon as rising optimism about the troubled US financial sector helped boost local banking stocks. At 1205 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had spiked 154.5 points, or 3.18 per cent, to 4994.4, while ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after US stocks closed on a fairly positive note on Friday following investor optimism about the troubled financial sector. At 0812 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... Leppinus said the market was surprisingly weak. "Google reported after-market and is down some 12 per cent, and we've got Citi reporting tonight and Merrill was after-market. "The after-market trading is probably leading our market a little bit lower ...

Mariner targets European aged care

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
Mariner Financial is planning an $800 million buying spree of European aged care infrastructure assets as part of a joint venture deal with German-based property financier HSH Real Estate. While Babcock & Brown is busy offloading some of its infrastructure ...