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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... general meetings are Fairfax Media, QR National, Sims Metal Management, Asciano, Brambles, Gindalbie Metals, Echo Entertainment Group and Specialty Fashion Group. On Wednesday, Australian shares gained more than one per cent as markets were boosted by ...

Indigenous Australians offered chance to Clime career ladder

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... careers. The programme has been running since 2002 and counts the big four banks, Qantas, Telstra, Woodside, Nine Entertainment Group and Westfield among its partners. Targeting year 10 students, AES has placed over 360 trainees across Australia, working ...

Soft dollar ban impact potential

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... incentives to recommend their licensees' products. Importantly, only 7% of advisers had received cash, gifts or entertainment valued over $300 from third parties and would therefore be impacted by the ban. The report, which surveyed 1,396 financial planners ...

FOFA: Government extends soft-dollar benefit ban to non-super risk insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... free overseas trips, expensive wines or free business equipment and services worth more than $300. It extends to entertainment and gifts worth more than $300 and office rental and commercial software. Soft dollar benefits are any benefit received by ...

Insurers want wireless relationship

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... as people can update their home and contents through their smart phones as they add value, for example buying an entertainment system and actively add the items to the catalogue of home and contents coverage through their smart phone. "The Australian ...

Yellow Brick Road seals deal with Nine

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... Exchange, Yellow Brick Road said the contracts remained subject to conditions including shareholder approval. Nine Entertainment Co. chief executive David Gyngell said the media company was in the business of building brands. "We will utilise the reach ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... slipped to a 10-month low, pointing to a slowdown in manufacturing. After the markets closed, Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony reported its third annual loss in a row, but forecast a return to the black this year despite a huge online ...

Energy Super first feature rollout

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... products, although discounted insurance options, private health insurance and banking products are available. Deals on entertainment, motoring, telecommunications services and health and fitness also feature heavily in the program. In addition to the ...

Nine to propel YBR into retail sector

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
Wealth management firm Yellow Brick Road (YBR) and media company Nine Entertainment have agreed to form strategic alliance to create a "people's champion in retail financial services". Nine will invest $13 million for a 19.9 per cent ordinary shareholding ...

Media Super wants corporate marriage

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... today revealed those new services would help the scheme, which caters for employees in the print, media, arts and entertainment sectors, to merge with corporate funds. "There's a lot of big funds in the corporate world... provided we've got something ...