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Securitised assets get RAMmed

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
Just as RAMS Home Loans Group chairman announced the home lender was no longer a going concern, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released new figures confirming that securitised asset levels in Australia are contracting on the back of the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower on a negative US lead and lower oil and base metal prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index was down 60 points at 6364. Today, the Australian Industry Group/Australian ...

Comminsure motors along

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The bancassurance model is alive and well. The Commonwealth Bank's life and general insurance business, Comminsure, has moved to do its own underwriting on its car insurance product because it believes it can get greater value out of its retail network ...

Bombay Stock Exchange leads governance reforms

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The Indian stock market has grown six-fold in four years and current sentiment is for it to keep going, but a big question for Australian investors is whether its governance mechanisms can absorb the explosive growth and maintain market integrity. Raising ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
The Australian sharemarket was in the red at noon following sharp falls in base metal prices and another soft lead from Wall Street. At 1202 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 33.2 points lower at 6495.4, while the All Ordinaries had declined ...

Platforms control two-thirds of planner FUA

Platforms now account for two-thirds of planner funds under advice after jumping from 53 per cent just four years ago, according to new research from the Rainmaker group. The research contained in Rainmaker's latest Advantage report confirmed that despite ...

Sub-prime Godzilla tramples Japan

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
While US and European banks take an 'open-Kimono position' towards sub-prime losses, it's leaving Godzilla sized footprints on Japan's financial sector, crushing the $320 billion Mizuho merger and derailing a share-swap between Citigroup and Nikko Cordial. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
The Australian stockmarket had made solid gains by midday today pushed up by financial stocks after confidence returned to Wall Street overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 77.8 points higher at 6593 while the All Ordinaries gained ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
The Australian sharemarket remained in negative territory this morning, with the only bright spot miner Rio Tinto, which rebuffed a takeover proposal last week from fellow miner BHP Billiton. A lower market on Wall Street and patchy base metal prices ...

Killer inflation - three fatalities

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
While the RBA flags the dangers of growing consumer spending on our rising inflation, China's rocketing inflation and consumer demand have proved to be a killer. Literally. Australia's employment growth was softer than expected in October, however Westpac's ...