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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher on a positive lead from Wall Street, despite patchy base metal prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0657 AEDT, the March share price index contract was trading up 23 points at 5793. On the ...

MIA predicts property slump by 2010

One of the longest property booms in Australian history will end by 2010, according to research house Managed Investment Assessments (MIA) based on its sector report polling the views of eight of the country's leading property fund managers. Colonial ...

Macq's the new kid on the SMA block

The private portfolio arm of Macquarie will begin offering separately managed accounts (SMAs) from April this year, joining the growing crowd of SMA providers hitting the market since BlackRock (formerly Merrill Lynch) launched its version a year ago. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after a weak lead from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0720 AEDT, the March share price index contract was trading down 19 points at 5,624. On the equities front today, Silver Mines ...

Liquidator gets 12 month suspension

Sydney liquidator Ronald Dean-Wilcocks has been suspended for 12 months from working as a liquidator after he failed to disclose conflicts of interest to his clients. Dean-Wilcocks challenged the suspension handed down in April this year but this was ...

Russell Select scores $400m mandate

It's alpha-hunting in bulk after super fund Unisuper filled the entire institutional capacity of investment manager Russell's Select Holdings fund with a $400 million investment mandate. Select Holdings is a global investment product that Russell recently ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
Just released data on housing finance for owner occupation shows that in seasonally adjusted terms there was a 2.3 per cent decrease in the total value of housing commitments excluding alterations and additions but a significant increase of commercial ...

Ironbridge and Archer spend $349m on pharmaceuticals

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
Australian private equity specialists Ironbridge Capital and Archer Capital have purchased the 3M pharmaceuticals business in the Asia Pacific for $349 million. As part of a strategy flagged in April this year, 3M decided to sell off its $2.1 billion ...

Broker gets jail term for forgery

A former options advisor and stockbroker has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison on 27 forgery charges and for trading $1.28 million worth of his clients' shares without their knowledge. In a case bearing some resemblance to the now infamous ...

It's a wrap for UK pensions: Zurich

Zurich Financial Services Australia has announced that its wrap services are all stamped as 'Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes' (QROPS) which will allow UK migrants to transfer their funds to Australia without heavy tax penalties. In April  ...