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Who's next to confess?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... announced increased provisioning for bad debts would hit its earnings. In making the announcement, ANZ Chief Executive Mike Smith said that the A$1.2 billion bad debt provision for the second half of this year would result in a fall of 20-25 percent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... volume of 10,433 contracts. "Our up move yesterday was three times what the Dow went up," Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said. "That didn't make sense, but there was some very astute betting on the PPI coming in so we've paid the penalty for ...

DirectPortfolio appoints board member

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
DirectPortfolio Services (DPSL) has appointed Philippa Smith AM to the combined Pentafin and DPSL board, replacing former chair Gail Burke. Smith was chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) for nine years. She ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... to $60.00, Santos decreased 24 cents to $19.16 and Oil Search lost five cents to $5.85. Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith an anticipated market decline an average day on Wall Street overnight pushed up big miners Rio and BHP Billiton. But the energy ...

SELECT guides investors to managed futures

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... exposure to foreign currency fluctuations and extremely volatile markets when using managed futures. That said, Robert Graham-Smith, SELECT portfolio manager of the firm's alternative portfolio, said managed futures can really come into their own and ...

SAM green funds re-branded to Vanguard

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... globally. SAM scores companies in terms of their corporate sustainability - ranking stocks within industry sectors. Eric Smith, Vanguard's chief investment officer, said "These funds provide adequate diversification and as such from a trustee's point ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... affecting global demand for oil. "Energy has rebounded with the oil price, obviously," Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith. "(But) we will need much more volume to substantiate the rise in (energy stocks). "Today has seen short covering in the first ...

Allianz opens Mid East office and funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... long term for Shariah compliant funds, especially those based on proven strategies investing in promising areas," said Nick Smith Allianz Global Investors UK head of fund distribution. "Secondly, we believe that recent equity market corrections have ...

JPMorgan joins debt platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... Yieldbroker's clients have access to a depth of liquidity in debt securities unparalleled in Australia," he said. Jeff Herbert-Smith, JPMorgan managing director and head of fixed income in Australia, said the firm was committed to providing a breadth ...

Perennial adds to smaller companies division

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
Perennial Value Management has appointed Andrew Smith to senior analyst of the firm's smaller companies division. Smith previously worked at small cap researcher, Linwar Securities, as head of research and prior to that, worked at Tyndall within its ...