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AMP axes regional head of advice roles

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
The ongoing restructure at AMP has resulted in at least two regional heads of financial planning leaving the group. AMP head of financial planning in Queensland and North New South Wales Bill Justo left as part of the streamlining of the group's top ...

NSW govt promises $60 billion infrastructure spend

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... government said that the NorthConnex toll road, linking the M1 Pacific Motorway at Wahroonga to the Hills M2 Motorway at West Pennant Hills, will be built and operated with the M7 Westlink shareholders, which include QIC and the Canadian Pension Plan. ...

Westpac appoints national Agribusiness GM

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
Westpac has appointed a senior business banker to the role of national general manager for its agribusiness operation. Steve Hannan will take over Graham Jennings, who retired from the role of general manager of the agribusiness operation in March. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat following gains on Wall Street where investors weighed continued violence in Iraq and mixed US economic data ahead of the Federal Reserve policy statement. At 0810 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price ...

Days of outstanding emerging markets returns numbered

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... markets as a homogenous group and only those countries embracing a reform agenda are likely to continue to converge with the West, both structurally and financially. Just over a third of respondents said that China would deliver real growth over the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
The share market has opened lower after the iron ore price dropped to a two-year low and tensions in Iraq hurt overseas markets. Iraq is a key concern among investors, Australian Stock Report senior equity analyst Benny Sada said. "There wasn't a lot ...

Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
Tensions continue in Iraq (has it ever gone away?), Russia's building up troops on Ukraine's border (38,000 and counting according to Ukraine) and the IMF has just released fresh forecasts for the US economy (crystal ball now shows growth at a flat ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
The Australian share market has opened lower as weak iron ore prices continue to weigh on mining stocks. The market is expected to drift on Monday due to a lack of drivers, Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said. "There was no major impulse ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... go again. Gulf War the third. Just in from Bloomberg, "Obama Won't Rule Out Airstrikes to Aid Iraq's Army". Oil spikes! "West Texas Intermediate and Brent crudes surged to eight-month highs as violence escalated across northern and central Iraq, increasing ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... 16 cents weaker at $3.35. Shares in Mineral Resources were down 33 cents at $9.81 after it bought a 12.8 per cent stake in West Australian iron ore miner Aquila Resources, in order to be involved in the development of the West Pilbara Iron Ore Project. ...