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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
The Australian sharemarket was down at noon, with a broad-based fall coming after bad news on Wall Street overnight. By 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 had fallen 102.1 points, 2.71 per cent, to 3666.9 after US equities slumped, amid concern bad ...

Bank guarantee must stay in place

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
The government should resist pressure to change the guarantee on wholesale bank funding, according to the head of debt capital markets at a leading investment bank. A director in capital market origination at Citi, David Bailey, said arguments that ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
I'll keep the change, thank you. With these words, the National Australia Bank hammered home the point of one of the G20 protesters' slogans, 'Bankers, rhyme with ?' Yesterday's decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to reduce the official ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open flat after receiving mixed leads from overseas. Wall Street broke a four-day advance on Monday as a rally in financial stocks fizzled and dragged the market lower. Gold and silver prices were weaker, while ...

Aberdeen Financials fund rated 'three star'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
Research and ratings firm, Standard & Poor's has given the Aberdeen Financials Fund a 'three star' rating. The fund is managed using a bottom-up investment approach and features a low five per cent annual portfolio turnover. Mark Daniels, Aberdeen head ...

Super funds eye cash

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... diversified investment options that include an allocation to the asset class. While the Federal Government guarantee for Australian bank desposits does not extend to super funds, Equipsuper, like many other industry funds, are finding safe havens in ...

Northern Trust granted Aussie bank licence

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
Northern Trust has been granted an Australian banking licence, allowing it to provide banking transaction services and broader custody and asset services to its local clients. The licence means Australian based Northern Trust clients such as the federal ...

Banks to reprioritise IT spending

THESHEET.COM WITH ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Australian banks are expected to invest in key risk technologies to boost their defensive position over the next 12 months in response to the global credit crisis. IT expenditure will come under new scrutiny but the area is no longer regarded as an ...

The other race

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
Punters would have been better off putting their hard-earned dollar into the Melbourne Cup winner - Viewed -- yesterday than on the RBA rate cut expecting an equity market gain. Both provided a surprise outcome, but while Viewed returned A$46.50 to ...

AMP taps Maple-Brown Abbott for Asian eq expert

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
AMP Capital Investors has appointed Jonathan Reoch as senior portfolio manager, Asian Equities. Prior to joining AMP, Reoch was at Maple-Brown Abbott where he was the Asian Regional Financials analyst, making stock calls on financial companies in the ...