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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... company news, Primary Health Care Ltd, Lumacom Ltd and Total Staffing Solutions Ltd hold general meetings. Minerals Corporation Ltd holds an extraordinary general meeting in Sydney. Gloria Jean's Coffee International founder Peter Irvine will address ...

ASIC bans Firepower adviser

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
ASIC has banned another adviser Quentin Ward from providing financial services for eight years after an investigation into his involvement in Firepower investments. ASIC banned Ward after an investigation into his dealings in the sale of Firepower Holdings ...

Experts pick top stocks and sectors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... gas exploration and production firm Beach Petroleum; gold miner Dominion Mining and caravan distributor Fleetwood Corporation had good balances sheets and exhibited good value in the long term. He said it was crucial for financial planners to look beyond ...

AFA renews call to restrict 'financial adviser' term

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is again calling for Treasury to restrict the term 'financial adviser' amid a barrage of negative media reports on the planning industry. Richard Klipin, chief executive of the AFA, said the term 'financial ...

Countplus buys first Sydney practice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
Countplus has bought a 25 per cent stake in St Leonards-based MBT Accounting Services - marking the first purchase of a Sydney-based firm. Count Financial Limited's wholly owned subsidiary, Countplus Pty Ltd, has settled its tenth acquisition and first ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... (Rio) rights issue." Rio Tinto added 78 cents, or 1.51 per cent, to $52.38 after its largest shareholder, Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco), said it had taken part fully in a $US15.2 billion rights issue from the Anglo-Australian miner. Its rival ...

BNP Paribas tech boosts Asian ops

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... across multiple time zones," said the firm. Earlier this year, BNP Paribas teamed up with the New South Wales Treasury Corporation to launch My Queries, a client support system developed by BNP Paribas, in Australia. My Queries is a web based automated ...

City Pacific still in RE bind

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
BalmainTRILOGY has lodged a notice with ASIC under the Corporations Act requiring the regulator to register Trilogy as the new responsible entity of the City Pacific First Mortgage Fund. Before the unitholders meeting last Thursday (June 25), City Pacific ...

APFC seeks absolute return director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) is looking to hire a director of investments for its absolute return and risk management division. The director will be posted at the APFC offices in Alaska's capital city of Juneau, population approximately ...

Alaska fund appoints $310 debt mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
The $40 billion Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation has appointed a $310 million distressed debt mandate to Oaktree Capital Management. According to a media statement, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation board of trustees has hired Oaktree to manage ...