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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... yesterday's local losses. Higher gold and oil prices had not stopped the US market finishing higher overnight, he said. "Ours is behaving in a similar way; we're actually looking okay," he said. "It's been led mainly by the resources. The banks were ...

Calliva suspends new loans to SMSFs

THE SHEET  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... Scully said, "We have just got to the stage where brokers have stopped asking us how the product works and started asking how ours is different from other providers. "We are confident of the strengths and continuing demand for our product. We expect ...

Collins challenges planner model

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
Financial planners could become irrelevant if they don't change the way they deliver advice to baby boomer and retired clients, according to Tom Collins, The Tom Collins Consultancy managing director. Speaking at the Rainmaker Marketing Symposium, Collins ...

Grant Samuel buys Tribeca stake

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
Grant Samuel Funds Management has bought Octaviar's equity stake in boutique Australian equity fund manager, Tribeca Investment Partners. As a result, Grant Samuel has been appointed Tribeca's external distributor. "Our strategy is to align ourselves ...

Advisers endorse rural insurance top guns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
Rabo Financial Advisers (RFA) is set to boost its risk insurance relationships with Aviva, Asteron and CommInsure after they were identified as leaders in providing risk insurance to primary producers and regional businesses. The financial planning ...

Agriculture drives biofuel investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
As agriculture continues to outperform, the push for sustainable biofuels will only increase investor appetite for investment opportunities in the sector. According to the Commonwealth Bank, "Australia's listed agribusiness sector has significantly ...

JPMorgan buys $342.5 bn Nordic custody service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services has purchased the institutional custody portfolio of Nordea, one of the largest Nordic banks with $342.5 billion in assets under custody. According to a JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services (JPMorgan), the deal ...

FSA changes practices after Northern Rock

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
The UK based Financial Services Authority (FSA) has overhauled its staffing and reviewing methods after an internal investigation found it failed to properly review Northern Rock's liquidity crisis. In February, Newcastle-based Northern Rock sought ...

ANZ sets the scene for capital raising

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
ANZ may be preparing investors for a capital raising. It is also noteworthy that ANZ and its CEO Mike Smith are taking the lead - given NAB and John Stewart took the opposite position in an interview with The Australian (and abstracted here) a couple ...

Mortgage managers sanguine over Macquarie exit

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... big five, St George, Suncorp, BankWest, ING and Adelaide Bank are all funding the sort of mortgage lending that groups like ours are doing." McKeon said the business was still ticking over. AFG wrote $2.5 billion of residential mortgages and $200 million ...