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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... $600 million worth of April 2012 Treasury bonds by tender. In company news, Environmental Clean, Paramount Mining Corporation, Apex Minerals NL and Paramount Mining Corporation hold general meetings. On Tuesday, the Australian share market slid to a ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... - could be more effective. I argued against it before saying that it worked in the 1990s because Resolution Trust Corporation (the bad bank's name back then) took over the assets of already failed US Savings & Loans institutions. They cannot argue with ...

GFC in a fortnight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
The events of the past two weeks provided a microcosm of the on-going global financial crisis. The past 14 days capture the drama cum horror story that is being played out all around the world over the course of nearly two years. Fresh US data released ...

Parlie inquiry into sales commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
Its game on for financial advice in Australia now that Parliament has convened a fast-paced inquiry into the role advisers, commissions and regulatory gaps played in the recent spate of financial services collapses. The Inquiry's wide ranging Terms ...

Adviser charged for contempt of court

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
Stephen Lewis Matthews of West Pymble has been found guilty in the Supreme Court of New South Wales of contempt of court for breach of orders made by the Court in proceedings previously brought by ASIC. On 4 October 2000, Justice Santow of the Supreme ...

Infrastructure wins pension funds votes

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... infrastructure allocations or intentions include CalSTERS, the Washington State Pension Plan, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, Oregon PERD, and the World Bank. The phenomenon is also gathering pace in Holland, where its largest pension fund APG unveilled ...

Alaska fund drops alternatives mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
The $43 billion Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation has axed two alternative investment mandates in light of the fund's shrinking assets. According to a press statement by the American fund, the board decided "not to move forward with two planned alternative ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... Ltd, Country Road Ltd, ING Office Fund, Servcorp, and Adelaide Brighton Ltd. In the US, gold digger Newmont Mining Corporation also releases full year results. Yesterday, the Australian share market closed more than one per cent lower following falls ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... Technology Ltd and Biota Holdings Ltd. Woodside Petroleum Ltd is due to release annual results, and Westpac Banking Corporation will release its December quarter trading update. On Tuesday, the Australian share market finished in the red, dragged down ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... December. National Australia Bank releases its agribusiness survey for the December quarter. In company news, Futuris Corporation Ltd, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Ltd, Austereo, Wesfarmers, Challenger Financial Services Group and Crane Group release first-half ...