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When old news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... higher on the day - compared with the previous days' slow grind to the top. There's news that US President Obama signed into law America's healthcare reform bill. But wasn't Wall Street also cheering when Republican Scott Brown won Massachusetts because ...

Instos lobby for Main Street

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
US institutional investors and experts have banded together to offer lawmakers a list of "do's and don'ts" in governance reforms as the Senate Banking Committee mulls over a bill by chairman Christopher Dodd to plug regulatory gaps exposed by the GFC. ...

Senate showdown looms on Clearing House legislation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... will flow for them, from 1 July this year," said Chris Bowen, minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law in a statement yesterday. But Coalition misgivings about the uneven market advantage Medicare will have as the only Approved ...

Changes to borrowing brings peace of mind

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... can have peace of mind when using the products. Chris Bowen, minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law, announced the government's proposal to amend the Corporations Regulations 2001 to allow superannuation fund trustees to access ...

AMP appoints head of infrastructure

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... leading Foreshore Global Capital. Pahari is admitted as a solicitor in Sydney and holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Law from the University of New South Wales and Master of Laws in International Business and Tax from the University of Sydney. ...

Insurance rep banned from fin services

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
Insurance representative Terrence Wayne McDonald has been banned from providing financial services for 10 years following an investigation by ASIC. McDonald, of Portland, Victoria, was banned after ASIC found that he had not complied with financial ...

MPW appoints state managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
Macquarie Private Wealth has appointed Tom Lawton and Jamie Melville as state managers of Queensland and Victoria respectively. Lawton joins MPW from Professional Investment Services, where he held various senior management roles and was most recently ...

Up, down, flat trading day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
Wall Street remains on system standby. You can reason one way or the other until you're blue in the face but the fact remains that there wasn't anything new in last night's data releases. It's the same old, same old mix of negatives and positives. Besides ...

ACCC sounds online fraud alarm

REGULATORY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... age, gender, education or income level. The report also highlights the work undertaken jointly by the ACCC, other regulators, law enforcement agencies and private businesses under the banner of the Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce. "The campaign ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
Australian shares are expected to open higher led by Wall Street and a stronger oil price. At 0826 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 22 points higher at 4,664. In economic news on Wednesday, the Australian ...