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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after the Dow Jones hit another record closing high on Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0721 AEST, the December share price index contract was up 13 points at 5,392. Today, Sims Group ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2006
The Australian share market was higher at noon on the back of resource stocks and as ANZ Banking Group Ltd led a surge in shares in the country's lenders. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had risen 30.1 points to 5382.4, while the all ordinaries ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after a stronger close on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones a record closing high. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0717 AEST, the December share price index contract was up 13 points at 5,358. Today ...

Big banks pursue more exotic securitisation schemes

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
ANZ is to double its collateralised loan obligation (CLO) business volumes to $2.2 billion using a deal offered through Resonance Funding Series 2006-1, a special purpose vehicle that will bundle a coupon rate through 110 corporate loans held by the ...

Equipsuper adds five to its team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006
Equipsuper has announced five staff appointments to bolster its team and drive it towards further growth on the back of a strong 2006 so far. Equipsuper's internal investment team has made two key appointments with Suzanne Branton stepping into the ...

Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

There's been a major reshuffle in the annual list of the world's 500 largest fund managers after the spate of mergers and demergers that rocked the industry last year. According to the annual Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt World 500 Ranking Survey ...

Star ratings on staff? Only in China

The third largest bank in China, the Bank of China (BOC), has introduced the penultimate in 'customer satisfaction' surveys, asking customers to rate individual banking employees on the spot with a one-star to five-star rating based on service level. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
Figures released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that the number of dwellings approved during July increased by 8.3 per cent to reach the highest level since May 2005. The result was largely a consequence of a 13.6 per cent increase ...

ASIC bans broker and adviser for life

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has imposed permanent bans on an insurance broker and a former ANZ Bank adviser for syphoning off significant amounts of money. Former insurance broker Dennis Whittaker, who was general manager ...

Daily economic update

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2006
In its quarterly monetary policy statement last Friday the RBA hinted that further rate increases in the near term were still a possibility because of the buoyancy of the housing market, where it said that conditions had picked up in the first six months ...