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Sunsuper harnesses Facebook reach

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... $5,000 donation for their school or community club. Five runners-up will also receive prizes. Moves by Australia's big-four banks to harness the power of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to talk to followers has been well publicised but ...

Economic indicators defy equities upside: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... volatile commodity prices, the on-going printing of bank notes in the US, Europe and Japan, plus the fragility of global banks as distorting influences on the market. However, he still insists that these factors do not necessarily equate to investment ...

QE results in currency wars

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... Fed, the Bank of England, Bank of Japan, and Swiss National Bank." In just four years the balance sheets of the G3 central banks have expanded by US$5 trillion. Cobon noted that one of the direct consequences of this monetary printing machine has been ...

IQPC conference tackles operational risk

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... Delegates will hear advice from numerous senior risk management executives from some of the industry's leading investment banks and financial institutions. The conference will bring together chief risk officers, chief compliance officers, heads of global ...

ASIC champion hybrid name change

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... The corporate watchdog's warnings follow more than $11 billion worth of hybrids issued since the start of the year by big banks and household name companies such as IAG, Caltex, CBA and Westpac. ASIC has twice cautioned investors to not be blindsided ...

More jobs, more jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... market for international trade. These are the very same reasons behind yesterday's interest rate reductions by the central banks of Brazil and South Korea. The Banco Central do Brazil cut the Selic rate by 25bps to 7.5% -- the lowest since December 1997 ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... doesn't want to ask. Greece is asking for money but the EU doesn't want to give. And oh, the latest IMF warning that Europe's banks may need to sell around US$4.5 trillion in assets through 2013 if they fail to stem their debt crisis. And this, my friends ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... as the local market consolidated recent gains. "There is a switch from the conservative ends of the market, which is your banks and retail and Telstra and that sort of thing, into resources," Mr Smith said. "That's the not-so-subtle change that is happening ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... cents weaker at $54.72, BHP Billiton shed three cents to $33.29 but Fortescue Metals was up two cents to $3.63. Among the banks, ANZ was up four cents to $25.54, Commonwealth Bank was eight cents higher at $56.93, and Westpac was up seven cents to $25.95 ...

Hybrid securities back in favour

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... The corporate watchdog's warnings follows more than $11 billion worth of hybrids issued since the start of the year by big banks and household name companies such as NAB, Crown, IAG and Caltex. The highest issue this year is Westpac's $1.6 billion offer ...