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AXA APH appoints Asia Life CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
AXA Asia Pacific Holding appointed former Prudential Corporation Asia employee, Michael Bishop to regional chief executive AXA Asia Life. Prior to this appointment, Bishop worked as managing director at the Prudential Corporation Asia across the life ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
The Australian stock market was up two per cent at noon, buoyed the banks and after a rally from the US overnight. Wall St rebounded a day after a steep tumble on a drop in oil prices and a rise in consumer confidence. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
The Australian share market continued yesterday's significant decline at midday as weaker industrial metals and gold weighed on the resources sector. At 1209 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 30.4 points, or 0.56 per cent, at 5,407, while ...

Syndicated loan market contracts by half

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... Australian banks at US$10.7 billion during the March 2008 quarter, down from US$21.9 billion during the December 2007 quarter. The BIS reported an average level of syndicated lending by banks of US$21.4 billion each quarter during 2007, and an aggregate ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
The Australian share market inched back into the black after opening lower, as the heavyweight resources stocks jumped apparently on comments by BHP Billiton's head that the miner may be prepared to include a cash component in its bid for rival Rio ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket was trading lower at noon with no lead from the US market and as investors took a breather after a week of rallying. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 18.9 points to 5,583.8, and the broader All Ordinaries ...

Praemium and COIN connect

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
Listed portfolio administration firm PrA|mium has launched a new interface between V-Wrap - PrA|mium's online portfolio administration service - and COIN's financial planning suite. PrA|mium claims the interface will minimise the re-keying of data between ...

Big Day Out for advisers

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
Advisers returned to their offices armed with a bundle of new ideas and strategies following Tuesday's Advisers Big Day Out (ABDO). The event in Sydney saw 140 advisers learn from representatives of Opus Capital, Aberdeen Asset Management, Franklin ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
The Australian share market had gone backwards by midday after a slump on Wall Street on Friday sent a chill across the local bourse and financial stocks in particular. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 105.3 points, or 1.94 per cent ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... take place over the next four years, echoes the 50 per cent increase in house prices over the next five years by forecaster BIS Shrapnel. Coming on a day when our Reserve Bank Governor told a parliamentary inquiry that they are expecting inflation to ...