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NZ bank credit ratings cut, outlook stable

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
New Zealand's major banks had their credit ratings cut by Moody's Investors Services on Friday as the rating's agency followed through on an earlier downgrade of their Australian parent institutions. ANZ National Bank, ASB Bank (subsidiary of Australia's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
The Australian market may gain on Monday after US equity and most commodity markets rose on Friday. Trading may be subdued because of public holidays in the UK and US on Monday. At 0753 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract ...

Genworth Financial names Aust director

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
Former Macquarie head, Tony Gill, has moved to Genworth Financial to fill the gap left by Grant Robson as new independent director of its board in Australia. Gill, who was most recently group head, banking and securitisation at Macquarie Group, has ...

Unfixed future for fixed income

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
The future of fixed income lies with product innovations, global investing and shirking away from benchmarks, the audience was told at AllianceBernstein's recent symposium. Doug Peebles, chief investment officer and head of AllianceBernstein's fixed ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
Surprise, surprise! There were more negative/depressing data releases over the past 24 hours than over the past few "days of fear" combined, yet most equity markets ended on the up and up. No Virginia, I'm not talking about ol' Dominique Strauss-Kahn ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
The Australian dollar was higher at noon, as news that Japan had fallen into a technical recession failed to spook currency traders. At 1200 AEST, the Australian dollar was trading at 106.51 US cents, up from 106.24 cents on Wednesday. Since 0700 AEST ...

Planners eye SMSF property

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
Industry associations are supportive of the trend for real estate firms and financial planners teaming up to target self managed super funds but are wary of the pitfalls. Self managed super fund trustees are increasingly adding property investments ...

Unfixed future for fixed income

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
The future of fixed income lies with product innovations, global investing and shirking away from benchmarks, the audience was told at yesterday's AllianceBernstein's symposium. Doug Peebles, chief investment officer and head of AllianceBernstein's ...

Bank profits exceed 25 per cent

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
Australia's bank profit margins exceeded 25 per cent with the big four earning more than 80 per cent of total interest income, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority said in its Quarterly Bank Performance Statistics report today. The big four ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
Another day, another down trading day - on Wall Street and in Europe overnight and chances are, it would be a down day in Asia too - if they follow the blind leaders. You've got it to hand it to market players. They're on their way to proving two immortal ...