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Westpac posts $1.4 billion profit to December 31

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... increase by 1%,.7% and 2.5% over the three months respectively. Westpac has previously stated it hopes to redeploy up to a third of staff who lose their jobs.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... Telecommunications, which owns Australia's number-two telco, Optus, lost one cent to $2.28 as Optus posted a four-per-cent rise in third-quarter net profit.

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... provided some sort of tranquillity in trading activity - we have yet to see the wild gyrations that we saw mostly in the third quarter of last year. That is until someone shouted 'Greece' and disrupted the sense of calm in the financial markets. As a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... December. In equities news, Leighton Holdings and JB Hi-Fi post first half results, while Singapore Telecommunications posts third quarter results. In Australia, the market on Friday closed lower on Friday as investors pondered a possible weakening in ...

OneVue adds retail super to platform

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... chief executive. Diversa Group will be the superannuation administrator and Diversa's subsidiary company CCSL Limited the third party superannuation fund trustee. OneVue will additionally use the Group's insurance capability. The anticipation of a more ...

Fixed asset allocation outdated: Schroders

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... general rule, equities are over owned across most portfolios." The unconstrained Real Return Fund presently has about a third of the portfolio in equities, 20-25% in cash and the other 50% in debt-based investments tapping into different parts of the ...

Waiting for the RBA to dance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... spending. The Australian National Accounts reveal the household savings ratio have risen to 10.1% of disposable income in the third quarter of last year - far above the 1.9% average of the first half of the noughties and way, way up from the negative ...

Shorten urges banks to stand by staff

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... multi-brands". Another batch of IT jobs have already been deployed offshore. Westpac said it hopes to redeploy up to one third of the 560 people who are at risk.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... equities news, Wesfarmers Ltd posts its second quarter sales results. In Australia, the market on Wednesday ended lower for the third straight day as brokers took profits ahead of the reporting season and after one of the best monthly starts to the calendar ...

REST and AAS sign five year deal

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... with full administrative and call centre services, and includes improvements in a number of services, said REST. It's the third time the two organisations have renewed their contract, and extends the partnership to a total of 25 years. "Each time we ...