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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... 1.52 per cent, tracking losses in regional markets, as investors fretted over the outlook for China's economy after Vice Premier Wang Qishan said inflation was the country's biggest economic problem. The Hang Seng Index closed down 386.62 points, at ...

Finsia names new president

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... and has been a director at the institute since 2005. "Over the next two years we will increase our focus on delivering premier professional services, strengthening our policy and advocacy program and further developing our portfolio services to support ...

Praemium and COIN connect

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... between their portfolio administration and financial planning systems. "By providing an interface with the industry's premier enterprise financial planning suite, we are giving financial planning firms the option to create a best of breed business model ...

Retirement age must rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
The call by NSW Premier Morris Iemma for a lift in the retirement age reflects simple economic reality. It also shows how naive in retrospect people were who criticised the former government's proposals to encourage workers to delay their retirement ...

Household wealth breaks through $5 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... in their family home. Conversely, dwellings accounting for two-thirds of all household wealth reaffirms housing as the premier wealth accumulation platform in Australia. Meanwhile the share of wealth held in dwellings jumped from 59 per cent a decade ...

RBF and MGI buy $350m airport

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... RBF already has $188 million invested in infrastructure managed by Hastings and AMP Capital. In ABC News, Paul Lennon, premier of Tasmania, said the purchase was a clear indication of the level of confidence in the Tasmanian economy.

Markets shake rattle and roll

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... cushioned the blows somewhat. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index posted its biggest one-day point loss after reports China's Premier Wen Jaibao decided to delay the domestic institutional investor (DDI) scheme. Back in August when China's State Administration ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... Kong stocks dived, with blue chips recording their greatest decline since September 2001. It was triggered by China's Premier raising uncertainties about the near-term launch of the "through train" scheme allowing mainland Chinese to invest directly ...

Singapore laybys Australia

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... assets to the value of A$22.8 billion. Two months later, Stephen Mayne, a former adviser to Jeff Kennett, the Liberal Party premier of Victoria in the early 1990s, reported in The Age, that Singapore's commercial footprint in Australia was still accelerating. ...

Still time to bid on 2007 signed team Manchester United jersey

Time is running out to bid on the signed 2007 Manchester United team jersey charity auction. The auction is being run by AIG Life who have made available the framed Manchester United soccer jersey* that has been signed by the entire 2007 Champions League ...