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Carbon trading for consumers: M2

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
Showing what can happen when businesses are given a viable commercial pathway for doing something about climate exchange, telecommunications group M2 has launched a consumer package that automatically buys abatements on the Australian Climate Exchange ...

ASFA awards Who's Who

ARIA, Sunsuper and Plum Financial were among the winners at this year's ASFA Communications Awards held in Melbourne last night. The ASFA (Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia) Communications Awards was designed to help raise the overall ...

Equities' erratic flight path

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
If equity markets were an international flight, right about now the captain would be asking "that all passengers, remain seated with seat belts firmly fastened." Consensus is that the current market turbulence will be around for some time so we may ...

CitiStreet expands team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
... financial services consultancy. He also worked at MLC as general manager of business and market development and was head of Plum Financial Services Sydney office over an eight-year period. Michael Longes has been appointed head of tax and will be responsible ...

St George chief moves to Westpac

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
... long time chief executive David Morgan when it appointed St. George Bank's highly regarded chief executive Gail Kelly to the plum role. During Kelly's tenure at St. George, the bank more than doubled its profits to over $1 billion and increased return ...

Risky business

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
Forget loss of appetite, investors seem to have become risk-phobic resulting in equities along with the Aussie dollar suffering another hammering. In a race to the bottom of the pool, the S&P/ASX200 plummeted 9.9 per cent from June's peak, the Nikkei ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
A recovery on Wall St overnight should push local stocks into positive territory today, helping the market claw back some of the heavy losses suffered in trading yesterday. At 0718 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
After opening in the red, the Australian share market continued to flounder at noon in the wake of further troubles on US markets. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had shed 102.9 points to 6041.3 while the All Ordinaries dropped 100.8 points ...

Plum awash with TFNs

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007
Plum Financial Services' campaign to inform clients about the significance of not submitting tax file numbers post-1 July has netted a four-fold rise in submissions over the past few months, according to chief executive, Mike Fitzsimons. The number ...

US fund fees plummet

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2007
Fees and expenses for US mutual funds plummeted to their lowest levels in more than a quarter century in 2006, according to new research just released by the Investment Company Institute in the US. "Stock fund investors on average paid 107 basis points ...