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Daily economic update

Australian house prices rose by 2.1 per cent in the December quarter to stand 2.3 per cent above their level in the same period in 2004. This compares favourably with unchanged prices in the September quarter and market expectations for a 0.8 per cent ...

CBA's new chief information officer has big ambitions

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has hired a new chief information officer with a brief to integrate the bank's funds management jumble of legacy systems. CBA yesterday said it hired Michael Harte as its new chief information officer. Harte is currently CIO ...

S&P and CITIC JV to ramp up Asian indices

S&P and China's leading index provider CITIC has formed a joint venture in a bid to create more benchmark indices for the Chinese securities market. The 50-50 joint venture will be named Standard & Poor's/CITIC Index Service and builds on both group's ...

Legg Mason funds placed "on hold" after key departures

S&P has placed Legg Mason's Australian equity and Australian property securities funds "on hold" following the announcement of key management departures. As reported by the Financial Standard on 9 February, Michael Wood, head of Australian equities ...

ING walks the line: Number one for customer service

Of the top 10 wealth managers in Australia, ING crossed the line first in a survey of customer service satisfaction. In an AC Nielsen survey of the top 10 wealth managers (by customer share) canvassing 22,527 respondents over the second half of 2005 ...

Senior Legg Mason staff exit after bonuses dealt out

Legg Mason Asset Management, formerly Citigroup, has had their head of Australian equities and the second in charge leave the group after bonuses and shares were recently vested. Former head of Australian equities, Michael Wood, and Wood's second in ...

Exchange traded funds to surge

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are big in the US but have barely made a ripple in the local market and fund manager INVESCO wants that to change. INVESCO's UK parent AMVESCAP has just signed a deal to buy PowerShares, the fastest growing ETF provider ...

Retirees to keep working and leave nothing for the kids

Forty-eight per cent of retirees plan to live off the pension and more than two-thirds of Australians will spend their money rather than save it for their children. These are the findings emanating from two studies, one published by AXA and the other ...

India is 30 per cent overvalued: Citigroup

The Indian market is suffering from too much of a good thing with huge foreign flow of funds into the country making it too expensive to invest in their equities, according to Citigroup. Ratnesh Kumar, head of India Research at Citigroup, said that ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2006
The Australian market should open lower following sharp declines on Wall Street on Friday. US stocks suffered their biggest loss in nearly three years on Friday, plummeting on disappointing earnings from blue chips Citigroup Inc. and General Electric ...