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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... sovereign debt crisis. "It was a very bad month, you want to forget it as quickly as possible," said Gregori Volokhine, president of Meeschaert Capital Markets. AT&T slumped 3.9 per cent on Wednesday after US authorities challenged its proposed $US39 ...

US S&P president replaced

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
Devon Sharma, president of Standard & Poor's since 2007, has been replaced in the role by chief operating officer of Citibank, Douglas Peterson, three weeks after Standard & Poor's historic weekend downgrade of US sovereign credit. The McGraw-Hill Companies ...

PIMCO adds to insto team

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
PIMCO Australia has added to its institutional team with the appointment of Sara Higgins as Vice President and Account Manager. Higgins has seven years of investment and financial services experience in areas including adviser distribution, private ...

AIA Australia creates Asia role, new CEO

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... said in a release that Green's experience would position him to drive the agenda across the AIA Group. Peter Crewe, president director and chief executive of PT AIA Financial in Indonesia, will become the new chief executive of AIA Australia on December ...

Former AFA president gets Asia-Pacific appointement

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
Former Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) President Dr James Taggart has been elected to the Board of the Asia Pacific Financial Services Association as an Australian representative. Dr Taggart, OAM, said he is honoured to have been nominated and ...

PIS names new CEO

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... Pacific, private equity and M&A services for insurance broker and risk adviser, Marsh. Prior to that, Walther was vice president, Leveraged Finance Group with NatWest USA and Fleet Bank, specialising in high leveraged transactions. Grahame Evans, group ...

Nothing happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... or not? And then there's the piece of Fedspeak thrown in to justify the market's 'sour' mood last night. Philly Fed President Charles Plosser and Dallas Fed's Richard Fisher were quoted voicing their disagreement with the Fed's decision to keep interest ...

AFM partners with Indon mngr for Aust expansion

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... institutional investors interested in exposure to Indonesia's stock market and money market." Mandiri's spokesperson, president director Abiprayadi Riyanto said the firm was particularly keen on super funds and family office's investment needs. The group ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... EU-wide tax on financial transactions and seek to create a eurozone governing body headed by European Union council president Herman van Rompuy. The eurozone had posted meagre 0.2 per cent second quarter growth, dragged down by a decline in German performance ...

Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... CBOE via VIX-based products such as futures, options, exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded notes, Matt Moran, vice president of business development for the CBOE, told the CFA Institute Australia Investment Conference in Sydney that it had been ...