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Wilson HTM appoints new head of private wealth

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
Wilson HTM Investment Group has appointed former JBWere managing director Brad Gale as new head of private wealth, tasked with growing the business division's reach. "Obviously Brad is a highly credentialed and experienced guy with a unique perspective ...

NAB expands Financial Planning team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
MLC has named Paul Fog as Financial Planning general manager of National Australia Bank in an internal appointment. Fog will be based in Melbourne and will assume the responsibility for running NAB's salaried advice network. Fog has been acting in the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
The Australian dollar has risen slightly after weakness following the Reserve Bank of Australia's official interest rate cut. The Australian market looks set to open higher, following the lead of Wall Street which rose on the back of better-than-expected ...

Missing the forest for the daily grind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
One step forward, two steps back. Two steps forward, one step back. Buy. No, sell. Sell. Wait, wait, buy! Tough, ain't it Virginia? Tough-er if you're trying to put food on the table by making sense of the daily ups and downs and ups... and downs in ...

Trust Company focuses on regional integration

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
The Trust Company has announced annual results of a 12% increase in reported Net Profit After Tax to $12.6 million, with regional integration to be a focus for the coming year. The company declared a fully franked final dividend of 18 cents per share ...

What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... that Australians are not borrowing - well, not as much. Credit to the private sector grew by just 4.9% in the year to February -far below the double-digit rates in 2004-2007 when the economy was growing at around trend. Retail spending has slowed to ...

ANZ cuts wealth mgmt by 230

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
ANZ Wealth will cut 230 roles from its division, the bank confirmed today, due to rising costs and customer preferences. Initially announcing in February that 1000 jobs would be cut in the 2012 financial year, ANZ advised staff on Wednesday that around ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
Australian stocks have opened slightly higher, driven by gains in the US overnight. At 1020 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 17.4 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 4,263.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 17.8 points ...

Investor negativity despite positive signs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
Investor sentiment climbed a significant 5.6 points in the latest index report, taking it to -16.8 and the eighth consecutive negative quarter. Based on the fourth quarter of 2011, a survey of 1,004 respondents between February 21 and March 5 this year ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
Shoulda, woulda, coulda. Yes Virginia, there'll be a lot of people saying this to themselves this morning. Those who clicked on that button just because the "panic" crowd appeared to be, well, panicking. Some would even be kicking themselves as they ...