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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
Australian shares may open little changed after mixed leads from US markets. Commodity stocks may decline after the price of raw materials slipped overnight as the US dollar rose. At 0806 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price ...

RBC Dexia wins Aberdeen mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
RBC Dexia Investor Services has been awarded a mandate by Aberdeen Asset Management to provide unit registry services for the funds which it purchased from Credit Suisse. "We already have a strong relationship with RBC Dexia, which is currently the ...

Improving admin could stop fraudsters: SPAA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
Self managed super fund (SMSF) administration processes need to be refined to ensure fraudulent rollover schemes are detected and stopped, according to one industry body. Andrea Slattery, chief executive at the SMSF Professionals Association of Australia ...

Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
Slow cooked. Is the Reserve Bank of Australia slowly boiling the Australian economy alive? I refer, of course, to the story of the 'boiling frog' - often used as an anecdote to describe the financial markets' failure to respond to significant modifications ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher following gains on Wall Street on Friday, but lower base metal prices may weigh on resources stocks. At 0723 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 34 points ...

AIA Aus hires Telecom CEO to board

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
AIA Australia appointed former Telecom New Zealand chief executive, Theresa Gattung, to its board. Gattung was chief executive and managing director at the telecommunications firms between 1999 and 2007. Before joining Telecom, Gattung was chief manager ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher following another day of gains on Wall Street after a stronger than expected profit result from finance giant Goldman Sachs. At 0730 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

Bravura wins business award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
Bravura Solutions is the winner of the 2009 Australian Business Award for International Trade in the IT&T industry. The Australian Business Awards recognise organisations that demonstrate the core values of business and product excellence, sustainability ...

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
Is this the beginning of the end? Gauging from last week's actions - rather inactions - by four of the world's major central banks, it appears that this is so. It had been a awhile since financial markets witnessed the kind of central bank activity ...

Mortgage fund managers review their options

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Fund managers in charge of $20 billion of mortgage trusts are rolling over between 50 and 80 per cent of the loans in their portfolios, as they try to maintain a balance between the demand of investors for liquidity and the need to maintain relationships ...