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ANZ to become top four bank in Vietnam

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
Homegrown bank and wealth manager ANZ is set to open new branches and expand services in Vietnam after receiving a licence of incorporation from the State Bank of Vietnam. The landmark move was witnessed by Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and ...

Markets are a public good: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
Australia may be a small country but it took Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2,700 word speech to the United Nations on Friday to articulate a way out of the global financial mess. The speech was in contrast to US Treasury secretray Henry Paulson's widely ...

SEQUAL appoints new chairman

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
SEQUAL has promoted its current deputy chairman, Martin Lynch, to the role of chairman to the reverse mortgages industry body board. Lynch is the head of reverse mortgage at ABN AMRO, having joined the firm in April 2005 to establish their reverse mortgage ...

Instos pour $370m into Apostle fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
A number of public sector and industry super funds, multi managers and master trusts have pumped a combined $370 million into a specialist Apostle fund that aims to capitalise on the undervalued US senior bank loans market. The Apostle Loomis Sayles ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to gain after US equities rose. Gold miners may decline after the precious metal fell overnight. At 0737 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index futures contract was 88 points higher ...

Customer service goes high tech

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
Vignette has rolled out a new online system that brings traditionally hard to access wealth management customer service to the World Wide Web. The new Vignette Case Manager allows organisations to automate and track customer transactions across multiple ...

Australian Ethical HQ wins Banksia award

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
Ethical fund manager Australian Ethical Investment put its ESG theories to practice when it won the prestigious Banksia Environmental Foundation award for its new environmentally friendly headquarters. Australian Ethical Investment's new office, Trevor ...

SEQUAL appoints first chief

Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) appointed Kevin Conlon as their first chief executive officer. "The SEQUAL Board determined that SEQUAL had developed to the point where a full-time CEO was needed, and decided that Conlon ...

Putnam appoints global chief and chair

Putnam Investments' chief executive Ed Haldeman has been appointed chair by the company board and will be succeeded by Bob Reynolds, a former senior Fidelity Investments executive. Reynolds starts his new role next month. He was previously the vice ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
It happens to house prices, shares prices, currency markets, in wage negotiations and now it's happening to oil prices. The speculators have moved in and pushed prices way above where they should be. Shane Oliver, chief economist and chief investment ...