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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
The Australian share market was lower at noon with little substantive lead from the US and mixed commodity prices. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 12.5 points or 0.31 per cent at 4,056, while the broader All Ordinaries lost 7.9 points ...

IT dept holds key to cost cutting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... manager at Carbon Planet Australia. "We now have the ability to track all transaction processes, from initial marketing, to sale, to deployment and invoicing, in the one environment, without the need to run multiple platforms and servers, thus reducing ...

Instos allocate $980m to catastrophe bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Bermuda-based Nephila Capital, which counts AMP and MLC as clients, has raised $980 million in the second quarter of this year from institutional investors targeting catastrophe reinsurance funds. Greg Hagood, the fund's co-founder, said pension funds ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open in positive territory after US stocks rose and oil prices gained overnight. Lower gold, silver and copper prices could limit gains, however. At 0732 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket has received positive leads overnight from higher stocks and commodity prices overseas. At 0709 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 42 points higher at 4,050. In economic news ...

Agribusiness MIS suffer 77pc drop

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... year. This was a $579 million drop from the previous $829 million raised to the prior year. Out of that $250 million, the sale of timber MIS accounted for 90 per cent (or $227 million) of total funds raised. This was a fairly substantial increase from ...

MMC Contrarian sells asset management arm

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... MMC Contrarian has sold its asset management division to Valuestream Investment Management. The firm announced into a share sale and purchase agreement in MMC Asset Management shares. MMC Asset Management is the fund manager and responsible entity for ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
The New Zealand bond market has moved in lockstep with its neighbour across the Tasman as it always had historically. There are numerous debates on why this should or should not be so. But whatever the underlying reasons behind this strong positive ...

MLC recruits ex-UBS GAM chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
MLC has appointed former UBS Global Asset Management chief executive Australia, Colin Woods, as general manager of the firm's sales division. Woods previously worked at UBS Global Asset Management in Asia across a number of roles, which besides chief ...

Macq trust sells US property

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... de-leveraging, the transaction is expected to negatively impact the trust's earnings and net asset backing. "It was determined the sale of this particular portfolio would deliver the most substantial strengthening of the balance sheet," said Steven Sewell ...