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CBA set to launch a $750 million hybrid offer

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is set to launch a new hybrid offer on the 12 of September, which is expected to raise $750 million. The CBA's hybrid offer, known as PERLS VI, will qualify as a Tier 1 Capital and will have an initial face value of ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
We've peered through the Hole and we saw something - we think. Now it's the Europeans turn. Yes Virginia, the Europeans are back in town! And yes, Virginia, we can tell because we're hearing the same rhetoric from the usual suspects being replayed on ...

Asset Super and CareSuper merger set for October

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
After a year of delays, industry super funds Asset Super and CareSuper said Friday they would merge on October 26 this year. The boards of the two funds agreed to in-principle support for the merger in September last year subject to due diligence, although ...

AMP training program to attract women advisers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
AMP has launched a new part-time financial planning training program that aims to provide a flexible pathway to the profession for those wanting greater work-life balance. The new program, Horizons Academy Flex Program, is particularly designed for ...

Ruling returns $62 million to MF Global customers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
Failed global derivative network MF Global's Australian customers yesterday learned they would be entitled to the distribution of $62 million of funds pursued by creditors. A ruling in the NSW Supreme Court yesterday established that the $62.7 million ...

ASX appoints non-exec director

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
The ASX has appointed former Australian Industry Group head Heather Ridout as a non-executive director of the company. Ridout is currently a director of AustralianSuper and a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia. She will stand for election ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
The Australian share market has opened slightly higher with investors appearing cautious after mixed offshore leads. At 1050 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 7.3 points, or 0.17 per cent, at 4,351, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Deferred tax impacts IOOF profit

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
A deferred tax liability had a material impact on wealth manager IOOF, knocking $63 million of its full-year statutory result. Retrospective changes to income tax laws forced IOOF to pay the deferred tax liability, resulting in its $19.4 million profit ...

The rally that no one's enjoyed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
This is because for every up move, there lies that nagging feeling that it's the calm before the storm and it's only the hope, the prayer and the wish that the Fed and the ECB and the PBOC and the BOJ and the BOE and the RBA et. al. would hand us a ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
It's still many, many sleeps before Christmas yet last night seems to be "the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." Financial markets generally marked time while we slept, unstirred by fresh ...