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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Australian shares are likely to open higher on Monday led by Wall Street and after gains among commodity and metal prices. At 0726 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 58 points higher at 4,666 points. In economic ...

Prison sentence for finance fraudster

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Hugh Charles Gordon, the former head of Newcastle investment company Whet Investments, was sentenced to 18 months jail, for fraud. Gordon, of Redheads, New South Wales, will be released after serving eleven months but will have to enter into a recognizance ...

Market Wrap - Midday

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
The Australian bourse was marginally higher at noon after a directionless morning of trade. At 1203 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 16.3 points, or 0.35 per cent, at 4,671.2, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 16.9 points, or ...

KPMG sounds alarm on admin fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Super fund trustees must make sure they have the option to audit their administration provider's performance, at short notice, to minimise the risk of fraud, according to KPMG. Speaking at the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia ...

AXA AP angles for bigger slice of Aus market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
AXA Asia Pacific's full-year report today shed some light on why it's being courted by National Australia Bank and AMP, but also how it plans to grow its local revenues in the next few years. This morning the group announced that its profit after tax ...

Count names new chief, profits bounce back

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
Count Financial has appointed a Deloitte actuarial expert, Andrew Gale, as the new CEO, a day before it posted a surge in half-year profits and funds under advice go back to levels reached before the global financial crisis. Gale has been appointed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
The Australian stock market may open slightly lower and trading may be subdued as traders have little direction following public holidays in the US and China. At 0740 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was four ...

EQT wins RE mandate with Janus

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
Janus Capital Group has appointed Equity Trustees as the Responsible Entity for the recently launched Janus Global Research 130/30 Fund. Janus Capital Group is a global investment firm that comprises of three specialist investment managers - Janus Capital ...

AMG buys Pantheon Ventures

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
Affiliated Managers Group is paying US$775 million for Pantheon Ventures, a subsidiary of Russell Investments. AMG said in a press statement that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Pantheon for $775 million in cash, with the potential ...

In Kerr Neilson we trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Financial planners are three times more likely to favour Platinum Asset Management over other international equities fund managers, new research found. An Investment Trends survey of 648 financial planners found 56 per cent of planners listed Platinum ...