Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 4441 - 4450 of 5512 results for "September 2008"

Foreign Exempt rules under review

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
Standard & Poor's Index Services (S&P) has teamed up with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to seek market feedback on a proposal to make listed Foreign Exempt companies eligible for index inclusion. In a proposal outlined in the consultation ...

Debt trumps terrorism as top threat

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
Australians are more concerned about other people finding out their credit card or debit card details than the threat of terrorism, a reversal of the trend post September 11, according to a new study. The Unisys Security Index measures the level of ...

Kelly plans changes at Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
Three months into her job as chief executive of Westpac Gail Kelly is ready to make some changes. Speaking yesterday at the presentation of the bank's results for the six months to March 2008 she said there were aspects of the business that disappointed ...

BTIM numbers hurt by market crunch

BT Investment Management Limited (BTIM) has fared better than the market in the six months to March but headline numbers are down or at the lower end of prospectus forecasts. The group has reported its first half year results since it was spun off its ...

Aviva buys Madison Harbor Capital

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
Aviva plc has confirmed it is acquiring the assets of Madison Harbor Capital, a US real estate multi-manager that participates in over $26 billion of real estate deals. Ed Casal and Russ Bates, the founders of Madison, along with the rest of the firm's ...

AUD to fall in second half of 2008: KBC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
The slowing world economy will dampen demand for Australian commodities, which will slow demand for our dollar and see the AUD drop in value by year's end, said KBC Asset Management in its latest world round-up report. "The declining demand for raw ...

Anti-terrorism ins board names new director

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
Patricia Azarias has been appointed to the anti-terrorism insurance Board of the Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation. The ARPC administers the Government's terrorism insurance scheme by providing reinsurance cover for terrorism risk relating to ...

Portfolio Partners appoints BD head

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
Sylvia Falzon has been appointed head of business development at Portfolio Partners. Falzon's appointment follows Aviva's announcement last month that it was merging ten of its global asset managers under one banner, Aviva Investors. As head of business ...

Abacus banks on new wave of tourists

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Tourists from the US and Japan may be down but hotel property investments are still a good bet thanks to a growing number of visitors from China, Korea and India, according to Abacus Funds Management. Abacus claims Australia's hospitality industry would ...

Escalator gets US tick of approval

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
Plum Financial Service's super savings program, Escalator, has received the thumbs up from US investment powerhouse, Vanguard, as it continues to garner business from its Australian corporate clients. Plum managing director Mike Fitzsimons visited Vanguard ...