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Bell profit hit by bad markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
Stock broking and financial advisory firm, Bell Financial Group, saw profit after tax fell almost 60 per cent to more than $14 million last year. The group posted more than $175 million in revenue for the 12 months to December last year, down more than ...

Thumbs down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Fizzler. This is the equity market's verdict on US President Barack Obama's latest salvo on preserving the 'American Dream'. If the Dow's overnight fall to a six-year low is anything to go by, yesterday's unveiling of the US$275 billion Homeowner Affordability ...

Planners to face cashflow crunch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Small-to-medium size financial planning firms risk bankruptcy if they don't quickly adjust their cashflow needs to suit today's realities, and the earlier they talk to their banker about needing extra help, the better, said one banking specialist. Malcolm ...

CommBank's 64,245 margin calls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
The share market meltdown forced CommBank to triple the number of margin calls in the second half of last year. The impact was that the size of the margin loan book plunged from $8 billion to $5.5 billion in six months, though this is in line with the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
The Australian market has received a weak lead from Wall Street securities and with oil trading down, although precious and base metals were higher. But at 0807 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 15 points higher at ...

Changing of the guard at Russell

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
Chris Corneil is the new head of Russell's Australian and New Zealand businesses after Alan Schoenheimer was promoted to lead the firm's international business operations. Russell's long-time chief executive of the Asia Pacific region, Alan Schoenheimer ...

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
The Australian equity market continues to follow the fortunes of its peers in America, Europe and Asia although economic and business fundamentals here are in much better shape than most of its global counterparts. So far this year, developed equity ...

Saved by the Fed

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be reborn in a four-pillar strategy put forward by the US government - a move that brought fast relief to the credit markets. After more than a month of deliberations, the Treasury, the Federal ...

IOOF profits down

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
IOOF has reported $26 million in net profit after tax, a drop of more than 10 per cent lower from its previous corresponding period. In a statement released on the Australian Securities Exchange today, IOOF reported a $25.9 million underlying net profit ...

QIC's new asset class a hot commodity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... Red Paper predicts food prices over the medium term to remain above the long term average. In addition, the report wheat, corn, rice prices are expected to remain high relative to the historical average, but somewhat below the latest peak.