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Challenger income and index fund boost profit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Challenger Financial Services saw net profit after tax (NPAT) rise in the first half of the financial year thanks to strong returns from its life company division and the expansion of its product offering. The firm's normalised NPAT rose nine per cent ...

Hasting sells off HUT stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... 21.38 per cent interest in HUT. RBC Capital Markets has acted as financial adviser to Hastings Infrastructure Fund on the sale of its 21 per cent unit holding in the Hastings Utilities Trust. RBC Capital Markets is the corporate and investment banking ...

Instinet adds four to Sydney office

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Instinet has appointed three sales traders and an equities IT specialist to its Sydney office. Scot Burton was hired as a senior sales trader while Alex Lai and Dan Heavener were both appointed sales traders. Chris Vella, was appointed to the equities ...

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 ...

Good news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
Another day, another good day on Wall Street overnight. It could not be any different given the good omens provided by last night's US economic data releases. Remember that inventory de-stocking that was prevalent over the past months? Seems that American ...

Macquarie appoints Bridges exec

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... consultancy services which can range from a three hour workshop on value proposition, to a 12-week program to make the firm sale-ready. The business is led by Liz McCarthy, who has more than 16 years experience in the financial services industry, along ...

Happy days are back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... they liked what they saw. Barclays reported that it doubled its net profits in 2009, lifted by investment banking and the sale of its Barclays Global Investors unit. Merck & Co, Kraft Foods and Abercrombie & Fitch also reported earnings that topped analysts' ...

Change of heart

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
It wasn't that too long ago that central banks the world over were losing their attraction for the US dollar and diversifying their currency reserves. China, Russia, Asian and Middle Eastern central banks were falling in love with the yen and the euro ...

CommInsure appoints head of wholesale risk dist

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
CommInsure has promoted Mark Woodward, executive manager of retail banking services distribution, to head of wholesale risk distribution. Woodward's appointment is effective immediately. He was previously executive manager of retail banking services ...

Norway pension enlists RI researcher

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... GES will screen the fund's portfolios for companies that may be involved in the production of weapons and, separately, the sale of weapons and military material to the government of Burma. The firm will also identify companies that manufacture tobacco ...