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Syndicated loan market contracts by half

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Syndicated lending by Australian banks fell by around half during the March 2008 quarter, in one measure of the restricted availability of corporate credit since the global credit crunch emerged in mid 2007. The Bank for International Settlements estimated ...

PM's wrong and right oil strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... Prime Minister was grandstanding for local audiences in Australia is that OPEC is only responsible for an estimated one-third of world supplies while some industry insiders say a major part of Australia's supply chain concerns are lack of refining capacity. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... business in 2008 and beyond' continues in Canberra. Yesterday, the Australian share market closed firmly in the red for the third consecutive down day as a steep dip in the oil price dragged energy stocks lower. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell 54.4 ...

FPA launches PI insurance for members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
... Thompson (JLT) to launch its new Pro PI service. JLT is the largest insurance broker in the Asia Pacific region and the third largest broker in Australia. As part of the deal, JLT will become the FPA's key broker and deliver the industry body's "Pro ...

Principal Global expands insto sales

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
... marketing. In December last year, the firm appointed former Standard & Poor's associate director, Marcus Hanel, to director of third party sales focussing on business growth in Australia.

FTSE100 shines in ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
... cent of companies still have "inadequate" environmental policy. Environmental reporting is still in the doldrums, with a third of companies still having inadequate or weak reporting. According to EIRiS, the greatest improvements have been seen in environmental ...

CBA still seeding Colonial funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
Seed funding for a couple of landmark infrastructure investments by Colonial remains on the balance sheet of Commonwealth Bank, in one case more than 15 months after the bank tipped in the capital. In an investor briefing on the bank's wealth management ...

Super savings on track

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
Just as new research confirms that Australians are on track for a retirement income equivalent to more than 90 per cent of average weekly earnings, concerns are growing about the damage rising inflation could have on these savings goals. AMP which has ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
... 0.64 per cent or 154.73 points at 24,282.04, led by a 3.7 per cent jump in CNOOC. WELLINGTON - Heavy offshore selling in third-ranked Fletcher Building helped push down the top-50 in a disappointing session. The NZSX-50 closed down 22.4 points, or 0.6 ...

Recovery in securitised assets mask long term problems

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
... routinely report annual growth of 60 per cent but since then this has been consistently falling to now routinely be only one-third this level. Focusing on the sub-prime fiasco, while important, is therefore not the sector's major problem.