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Santa's in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
"Here comes Santa Claus, Here comes Santa Claus, Right down Santa Claus Lane..." The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) played Santa to Australians all by announcing no increase in interest rates yesterday. It may have to lift the official cash rate from ...

New M&A expert in town, hires BT chief

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
US-based Berkshire Capital, which provides merger and acquisition services to investment and wealth management firms, has landed in Sydney - and appointed former BT chief executive Ian Martin as vice chairman, Asia Pacific. Berkshire Capital - not associated ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Pick your poison. There's a "Murphy's Law" event for every bear to choose from to shatter all hopes, prayers and wishes. Thanksgiving? No, thanks! As Mr. Murphy famously said, "If something can go wrong, it will!" It sure the heck did over the past ...

Chireland hurdled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... Lenihan clarified that the dosage will "certainly not" amount to the to a,-100 billion ($139 billion) that's the talk of the town. Europe would be at peace again... until the next debt scare. If only the European Central Bank did a proper stress test ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... could pop up (Portugal, Spain, Italy). Investors fled risk assets big time overnight from "New York to Rio and old London town" fearing more tightening measures in Beijing and a potential contagion into other European countries if Ireland blows up. Cyberscreens ...

Health Super CIO resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... looks for a new CIO. Shepherd, who has been at the investment helm of Health Super for seven years, will return to his home town of Perth January next year. Clausen will take over the investment portfolio with the support of senior investment staff while ...

Adviser sentenced to 8yrs imprisonment

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
A former financial adviser receives a jail sentence after pleading guilty to 13 fraud charges following an ASIC investigation. Neil Francis Dodd was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in Townsville's District Court after an ASIC investigation concluded ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... Commonwealth competitors with 32 gold medals, 19 silvers and 17 bronzes. But it's the Aussie dollar that's become the toast of the town, the flavour of the year (ok, just the latter quarter of 2010) and the pride of the nation. It came oh so close to ...

AMP appoints business partnership manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
AMP Financial Planning has appointed former Westpac lead state banker David Randall to the newly created role of business partnership manager. Randall will look after North Queensland, covering the area north from Rockhampton and west to Mt Isa. AMP ...

Light at the end of the Storm tunnel

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
Slater & Gordon expects all Storm Financial claims lodged with the law firm to be finalised by the end of this year. According to a Slater & Gordon statement, more than 900 Storm Financial claims have been finalised and 1,500 investors compensated by ...