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IOOF consolidates platforms

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
IOOF is going through another round of rationalisation within its platforms, systems and other services, following its acquisition of Skandia Australia and merger with AWM. Following the rationalisation, IOOF will make fewer system changes, have fewer ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... other one - Europe's Celtic Tiger. Ireland has agreed to be saved. But the authorities who are signing the bailout contract - yes, this will include various clauses involving measures to reduce the deficit (ouch!) - may not be the ones to implement them ...

PIH planners vote yes to merger, future uncertain

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
Professional Investment Holdings is a step closer to merging with Centrepoint Alliance after the majority of PIH planners agreed to the deal - but there's a big question mark on how many of them will stay at the new firm. PIH shareholders in four separate ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... shenanigans that flourished during the boom days when no one cared how money is made as long as money is being made? And oh yes, there was Moody's Investor Services - yes, the ratings agency - back in the headlines again. In its weekly credit outlook ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... missed it, the PBOC's decision on the reserve ratio last Friday was the second in as many weeks and number five this year. Yes, you can interpret that to mean that the politburo is well and truly concerned. So concerned, that they've even hiked interest ...

Shareholders vent fury over exec pay

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
The deep wounds caused by the GFC to investors are a long way from healing, with shareholder resentment over executive pay packets still at an all-time high. Despite a surging share price and strong business performance in the last financial year, shareholders ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
The Australian share market edged into positive territory in intra-day trading on light volumes as big investors sat on the sidelines awaiting more market direction. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 6.4 points, or 0.14 per cent, at ...

Perpetual FUM stable despite KKR bid

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Investors have shrugged off uncertainty surrounding Perpetual Investments' future, with the company reporting that its clients have kept their money with the manager despite a takeover approach last month. In a statement to the ASX yesterday, Perpetual ...

Cormann blasts ALP over default super

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
The Shadow Minister for Superannuation, Senator Mathias Cormann, has criticised the ALP for failing to support moves to improve competition into the default superannuation fund market. The ALP voted against a coalition motion in the Senate yesterday ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... bigger version where instead of only financial institutions, whole national government's heads are included for extra fun. Yes Virginia, just when we thought that the Fed has whack the head of deflation and unemployment in the United States of America ...