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Snowball taps mining rich towns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... Solutions and Big Sky Credit Union signed a joint venture agreement to create Big Sky Financial Solutions and tap into the latter firm's cashed up mining and construction members. Big Sky Financial Solutions will provide financial advice and wealth management ...

EAI merges with PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... basis." EAI will be re-branded under the PRI banner and it will also have to change some of its processes in-line with the latter initiatives procedures. "The opportunity to join forces with the PRI will allow us to internationalise and extend the call ...

Challenger recycles capital

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... same time Colony Capital, a US investment firm, paid Challenger $64 million for an option to buy 57 million shares in the latter at $7 a share over five years. That investment would buy Colony a two per cent stake in Challenger today, but for its outlay ...

Five core banking systems overhauled at CBA

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
... does not apply to a multitude of other bank systems such as the general ledger, data warehouses or front-end systems. The latter were the primary aim of the IT investment phase kicked off in 2003 and hyped under the moniker of "Which new bank?". The ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... crucial to understand the disconnect between developed G7 economies and developing or emerging economies, particularly as the latter are on a growth trajectory driven by them now catching up with the rest. Bringing all this into context, Stammer said ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... really hurt the sector." Mr Wacher said the share prices of rivals Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton continued to see-saw, with the latter's shares notably dipping below $41 in morning trade, a level not seen since September. He said today's positive NAB Business ...

Pass the paracetamol

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... demand in the second half of 2008 and beyond, creating headaches for the RBA. We'd like to see some sobriety come into the latter stages of the campaign." Henderson is not alone in believing there's more to come, "probably in February but December is ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
... average and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index leapt to all-time highs, with the former up 91.70 points to 14,066.01 and the latter 14.75 points higher to 1,557.59. The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 46.75 points to 2,780.32. Locally, BHP Billiton was 66 cents ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
... contracts. Both the ASX 200 and the All Ordinaries set new intraday highs during the morning, the former at 6656.3, the latter at 6665.6, both beating records set yesterday. Reflecting on the rally in the US, CMC Markets senior dealer Domenic Vaughan ...

The long and the short of JANA

... while the global product held $35 million. The former returned nearly 30 per cent against its benchmark's 27 per cent. The latter gained only 6.6 per cent versus its benchmark's 9.4 per cent. But Coombe said, "While the Global Long Short has underperformed ...