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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
... the markets, retailer David Jones Ltd will deliver its third quarter sales results, as will media outfit News Corp. Optus owner Singapore Telecommunications Ltd will unveil its fourth quarter and annual results. Melco PBL Entertainment is expected to ...

Party like it's 1983

Australian workers who took out super before 1983 have two months to consolidate their pre-1983 super accounts and save tens of thousands of dollars, according to a self managed super fund expert. Martin Murden, a director at Partners' Superannuation ...

Barclays to buy ABN AMRO

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
Barclays has agreed to purchase rival ABN AMRO in a US$91 billion deal, creating the world's largest asset manager and the eighth largest wealth manager, with 47 million customers. However, reports emerged yesterday of a possible rival bid from the ...

Rate rise spectre saps consumer confidence

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
Flying in the face of a 4.5 per cent jobless rate, strong currency and figures showing 5.5 per cent of household finances have improved in the last month, interest rate uncertainty may account for the latest figures in consumer confidence dipping to ...

NZ mortgage brokers face 25 per cent income cut

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
ANZ/National Bank is proposing to cut the upfront commissions it pays mortgage brokers in New Zealand to 45 basis points from 1 June. ANZ/National currently pays a range of upfront commissions depending on factors such as volume but the average is 0.6 ...

Institutions more comfortable with hedge funds: State Street

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
State Street's third institutional investor hedge fund study shows more institutional investors are comfortable investing in hedge funds today than 12 months ago. Conducted late last year, the study, in conjunction with the 2006 Global Absolute Return ...

Quadrant leads super funds investors to buy Red Rooster

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
Quadrant Private Equity has led its super fund investors to buy Australian Fast Foods (AFF), owner of the Red Rooster and Chicken Treat brands, for $180 million. The management buy-out, funded largely by domestic super funds, seeks to improve both Quadrant's ...

NSW Govt to launch biodiversity fund

Private land owners and property developers are set to benefit from an innovative NSW Government scheme which allows both parties to address the biodiversity impact of any land development through a centralised offset and credit-based scheme. The brainchild ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
... released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday showing that there was a 4.3 per cent increase in February with owner occupied approvals up 0.9 per cent and investor approvals up 8.9 per cent. The numbers of approvals for owner occupations ...

Centro growing US footprint

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... (CNP) and Centro Retail Trust (CER) have succeeded in their $6.3 billion (US$5.0 billion) joint bid for US shopping centre owner and manager New Plan Excel Realty Trust. CNP will take a 64 per cent or $4 billion stake in New Plan and CER will hold the ...