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Count: 13 times lucky

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
Countplus has settled its thirteenth acquisition - purchasing a 25 per cent share in Canberra-based advice firm, Achieve Corporation. Achieve, founded by Simon Mitchell in 2003, is a specialist payroll and advice firm and employs 23 people. There are ...

FPA appoints deputy chair

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has appointed Matthew Rowe, managing director at Hood Sweeney, as deputy chair of the association's board. Rowe, a member of the FPA board since last year, takes over the role from Mark Spiers, general ...

Bears cursed by September curse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
General financial market optimism and momentum defeated the curse of September this year. Recall that on the very first day of September I wrote that, "the line of least resistance is for history to re-assert itself." Id est, worries that September ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
The Australian sharemarket was relatively flat at noon, holding its position ahead of the release of key US economic data and an overnight fall on Wall St. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 7.1 points, or 0.15 per cent, at 4746 ...

Macq Global Investments wins mandates...

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
Macquarie Global Investments' Professional Series has been awarded an investment mandate from industry super fund Cbus and a nod from van Eyk. A statement from the bank said Cbus had invested a significant amount into the Scotland-based fund manager ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
Herding cats. There was not much movement on Wall Street overnight so let's just talk about herding cats today. Wall Street dipped ever so slightly as - despite what the headlines say - there weren't any fresh news to steer direction. It was the same ...

Westpac's Chronican joins ANZ

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
Westpac Institutional Bank group executive Philip Chronican has jumped ship to ANZ - taking up the post of chief executive Australia in November. Chronican will report to ANZ chief executive, Mike Smith. Chronican, who will be based in Melbourne, will ...

TWUSUPER rejigs investment mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
The $2 billion TWUSUPER has cut its exposure to domestic listed property trusts to focus solely on international LPTs, and is considering allocating more funds to credit, infrastructure, emerging markets and hedge fund managers. Andrew Killen, chief ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after takeover optimism drove US stocks higher overnight. At 0720 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was 56 points higher at 4744. In economic news on Tuesday ...

CFA appoints Gunasingham as president

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
CFA Society of Sydney (CFAS) has elected Brindha Gunasingham, CFA to the role of president of the board. Gunasingham's term begins immediately. She will succeed Olivia Engel, CFA who served as president since August 2007. CFAS has also announced Richard ...