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Bravura IT signs BNY deal

Bravura Solutions' business story may not be tagged as one of Australia's best export stories just yet but it comes very close after it signed a Bank of New York software deal that made it the IT backbone behind $750 billion in funds under administration ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
The returns to the house prices of the Australian capital cities has shown a weighted average return over the year to September of 9.5 per cent of which Western Australia property values increased a staggering 45.9 percent, Darwin a healthy 17.3 and ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
The pay packets of management are back in the spotlight with news that the average salary of chief executives in Australian chief executives has risen by about three hundred per cent over the last couple of decades and that within the top 50 companies ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open in positive territory as late afternoon trading data in the US showed indices there were on track to end trading higher. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was up 18 ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
The Australian dollar was weaker at noon today, despite strong Japanese economic data helping the local unit recover some of its overnight losses. At 1200 AEDT the domestic unit was at $US0.7637/41, down from yesterday's close of 0.7673/79. During the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
Just released data on housing finance for owner occupation shows that in seasonally adjusted terms there was a 2.3 per cent decrease in the total value of housing commitments excluding alterations and additions but a significant increase of commercial ...

High conviction means making tough decisions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
Just because you are a high conviction investment manager doesn't mean staying with stocks no matter what, instead it means making tough decisions with conviction. Speaking at the netwealth adviser conference last week, Don Williams, executive director ...

Broker gets jail term for forgery

A former options advisor and stockbroker has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison on 27 forgery charges and for trading $1.28 million worth of his clients' shares without their knowledge. In a case bearing some resemblance to the now infamous ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
Yesterday's rise in interest rates takes the total to five rate rises since 2002, totalling 2 per cent, and the fourth since the last election when Prime Minister Howard promised to keep rates low. As a consequence the average household will be paying ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open firmer following a strong Wall Street rise. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0740 AEDT, the December share price index contract was up 13 points at 5,456. Today, News Corp releases its first quarter results ...