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Market woes cause adviser headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... provider Invocare. Ramsay Health Care would benefit from the growing population and was expanding its operations in the UK and France, he said. Invocare's revenue growth is also linked to population demographics, in particular the ageing baby boomers. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
The Australian dollar gained slightly after it emerged that France and Germany may have reached agreement over how to resolve the Greek debt crisis, ahead of a crucial 17-country summit. At 1200 AEST on Thursday, the Australian dollar was trading at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... 100 rose 37.5 points, or 0.6 per cent, to 5,906.43, while Germany's DAX gained 93.8 points, or 1.3 per cent, to 7,267.87. France's CAC 40 closed up 20.7 points, or 0.55 per cent, at 3,793.27. Shares in British Sky Broadcasting closed 2 percent higher ...

IMF elects new chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... accept that another experiment at monetary unity has failed. The first time they tried - and failed - was in 1865 when France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland tried to unify their currencies by forming the Latin Monetary Union. They were joined by Spain ...

Super funds urged to capitalise on Euro property yields

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011

European authorities will blink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... the world's) weakest link. What happens to it will determine what happens to Ireland, to Portugal, to Spain, to Italy, to France, to Germany, to the US, to the world. There's no way out. If the Eurozone is so frightened by the prospect of a default by ...

State Street secures REST lending deal

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
REST Industry Super has appointed State Street Corporation as its global securities lending agent, building on their relationship established earlier this year. State Street will now deliver a securities lending programme for REST's global bond and ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... take charge of their own economic situation," even if this leads to tensions on capital flows. To which, another French, France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde added that, "The doctrine of the International Monetary Fund has changed" from prescribing ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... weekend, "Operation Odyssey Dawn" added to the list of market uncertainties as the United States, the United Kingdom and France - with the blessing of the United Nations - started bombing Qaddafi's bum off his throne. And by the looks of it, they may ...