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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... Australian sharemarket was up at noon boosted by positive news from overseas and better than expected results during corporate profits season. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 49.4 points, or 1.11 per cent, at 4485.3, while the broader ...

Centric Wealth signs on XPLAN

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra. Centric has a network of 59 advisers across financial planning, risk insurance, corporate benefit services, accounting and business advisory, lending services, general insurance and family office services. It ...

BNY Mellon to buy Insight

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
The Bank of New York Mellon is looking to acquire Insight Investment Management from Lloyds Banking Group for $464 million. In a press statement yesterday, BNY Mellon announced it would be buying Insight Investment which specialises in LDI (Liability ...

Institute appoints super head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... to joining the institute, Westover was senior manager, superannuation division at KPMG, responsible for consulting on corporate funds, companies, employer and individuals. She also developed KPMG's Henry Review submission. Before KPMG, he worked as superannuation ...

FT opens global bond fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
... portfolio consists of global fixed and floating rate debt securities, debt obligations of governments, government related or corporate issuers and derivatives. "Active management of a global fixed income's three primary source of alpha - currency, duration ...

Industrial espionage turns viral

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... certain Australian mining companies and accusations of industrial espionage, financial services firms too may have a corporate "traitor" within their ranks. But the perpetrators themselves might not even know they are inadvertently supplying sensitive ...

CBA chair John Schubert retires

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... chairman was carefully undertaken by the board over a period of several years and my resignation accords with the board's corporate governance guidelines which nominate five years as the preferred term for the chairman," he said. Turner has been an independent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... shares closed up 1.32 per cent, striking a 10-month high as investors remained upbeat about prospects for a recovery in corporate earnings, despite overnight losses on Wall Street. The benchmark Nikkei-225 index rose 135.56 points to 10,388.09, its best ...

Danger signs ahead but bargain stocks a-plenty: Faber

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... including going long on gold and silver (sovereign funds will likely buy gold when interest rates are around zero), corporate bonds and Asian equities (many markets in Asia are near 20-year lows). Tapping on socio-demographic trends, Faber is bullish ...

More reform through reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... as opportunities to improve the current system, said Chris Bowen, minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law. Bowen, who addressed an audience at yesterday's Investment and Financial Services Association conference, said compulsory ...