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More than ratings: S&P

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
Standard & Poor's is adding more staff and developing extra research services to boost the global firepower of the ratings agency Down Under. Leanne Milton, Standard & Poor's head of research, said the firm's aim is to make their ratings and research ...

Local S&P veteran heads to global stage

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
Mark Hoven, head of fund services at Standard and Poor's Fund Services in Australia has been promoted to global head of sales, marketing and business development of the ratings house and will be based in London. Hoven currently heads up S&P's Fund Services ...

Asteron adds to sales team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
Asteron appointed former AMP executive, Barry Strapps, as sales manager. Strapps has more than 30 years experience in financial services after working at AMP across a number of divisions including practice management, corporate superannuation and business ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
I'll keep the change, thank you. With these words, the National Australia Bank hammered home the point of one of the G20 protesters' slogans, 'Bankers, rhyme with ?' Yesterday's decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to reduce the official ...

Nominations open for 2009 Rainmaker Marketing Awards

FINANCIAL STANDARD IS OWNED BY RAINMAKER GROUP  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
Rainmaker is calling on the 18,000 readers of Financial Standard to nominate people and firms they believe would be worthy winners of the 2009 Marketing Excellence Awards. The awards are for marketing excellence shown during the period April 1, 2008 ...

AIG Australia weathering US storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
AIG Life Australia has withstood the US financial storm to post record increases in sales and customer loyalty, thanks to a communications program that could raise the standard for the level of disclosure customers expect from their insurers. Rather ...

Make love not leverage

Financial Fools' Day is what some 4,000 anti-everything protesters dubbed the day when leaders of the G20 meet to hold a summit on 'how do we solve a problem like the GFC?' The protesters were railing against almost every issue known to man it seems. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher following a positive lead from US and European stock markets. At 0720 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 58 points at 3,639. In economic news on Wednesday, the ...

CVC the preferred buyer of iShares

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... have a preferred bidder, CVC Capital Partners. If these negotiations reach a satisfactory conclusion, it would lead to a sale of Barclays iShares business without the attributable securities lending business," according to the statement. Earlier speculation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher with US and European stock markets ending the first quarter of the year with rallies overnight. At 0720 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 26 points at 3,592. ...