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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower on the back of a poor lead from Wall Street and a mixed metals market in London. At 0701 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was down 36 points at 5124. Today ...

FPA takes it to the grassroots

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has established the Future Financial Planners Council, made up of the country's key industry players, to raise awareness of the profession among university students. The Council will design marketing material ...

International value funds back in vogue

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
International value funds have been lying low for several years, but the sweep of panic wafting from the recent credit market turbulence has the funds gearing for a major comeback - with several US fund managers eyeing the Australian market. US investment ...

QIC tops up Pengana mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
QIC has boosted its mandate to Pengana Capital's Global Volatility Fund by $111.5 million, three months after it gave the fund an initial $167 million fund injection. QIC now has $278.5 million invested in the Global Volatility strategy after the firm's ...

Former St.George chief moves to Westpac

Westpac chief executive David Morgan is officially vacating his seat to make way for new head, former St.George chief executive Gail Kelly. Kelly succeeds David Morgan who had been Westpac's chief executive for nine years. In a statement, she said her ...

GM takes sustainability mainstream

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
General Motors chief executive Rick Wagoner telling the audience at the Detroit Motor Show that the world has reached peak oil and that alternative fuels are now essential for the car industry confirms just how mainstream sustainability has become. ...

BTIM raises $247m

The partial float of BT Investment Management (BTIM) has raised $247 million based on a final price of $4.80 per share. Of the proceeds, $3.5 million will be used to pay certain offer costs and $13.75 million will be used to fund equity grants to new ...

Oil prices a two-way street

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
Record high oil prices is fuelling the Middle East to export nearly as much capital as they do oil, tying their economies to that of the west and acting as a brake on ever higher fuel prices. Saudi Arabia produces about one-third of the world's oil ...

iMap spearheads MA education

The Institute of Managed Accounts Providers (iMap) wraps up its first year as the peak body for managed accounts with a growing membership base and a clear strategy on its education and compliance-focused initiatives for 2008. Speaking at the final ...

US Fed hints rates holiday may be over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
The US Federal Reserve, stung by criticism it dropped rates to protect favoured institutions in a preferred segment, is warning they won't keep protecting them forever. "To be sure, lowering interest rates to keep the economy on an even keel when adverse ...