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Enhanced Investment Technologies wins award

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... top levels of service, performance and innovation to occupational pension plans and their members. David Schofield, president of Enhanced Investment Technologies' international division, said the firm appreciated being named the top manager particularly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... its way to Wall Street. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced his opposition to the plan, breaking with President George W. Bush. Observers said McConnell was seen as a key to helping overcome opposition from other Republican lawmakers The ...

Lowenhaupt Global Advisors lands in Oz

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... the latest addition to the firm's existing offices in Missouri and New York. Accountant Stuart Black, who served as president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, has been appointed chief executive of the Sydney firm. "Lowenhaupt Global ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... nine out of the past 11 sessions. "People may be wary that the market may have got a bit ahead of itself," he said. "(President elect) Obama is not going to announce them until January and they are not going to hit the economy until March, April." He ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... new investment' in roads, bridges and public buildings since the Eisenhower Administration. This, of course, refers to President Dwight D Eisenhower's crowning achievement in 1956 signing the bill that created the Interstate Highway System. 'We won't ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after US shares gained on optimism that President-elect Barack Obama's plan for a huge infrastructure spending package will help boost the US economy. Resource stocks may also gain after commodity ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... spent to replenish run-down and obsolete capital stocks and infrastructure in the economy - instead of financing wars. President-elect Barack Obama vowed to make the 'single largest new investment' in roads, bridges and public buildings since the Eisenhower ...

Lay-by age pension to plug savings gap

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... even more pressing in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, said Trevor Thompson, the Institute's senior vice president. Catherine Nance, director at PWC, said that based on projections that broadly 80 per cent of the population will still rely ...

Dow Jones launches Islamic ASEAN index

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... enables market participants to track Shari'ah-compliant stocks across the Southeast Asian region," said Mike Petronella, president, Dow Jones Indexes. "The index further broadens the geographical coverage of the well sought after Dow Jones Islamic Market ...

Wiki me happy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... providers can engage their Gen Y staff and retain their customers. The power of social networking came to the fore after President-elect Barack Obama won the US elections, thanks partly to his foresight about winning voters who are "wired" to the web. ...