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From Slovakia with love

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Once regarded as a Bohemian backwater, Slovakia has become one of the most stellar perfoming economies of east-central Europe courtesy of policy reform, foreign investment and robust industrial expansion. The Slovak economy bucked the slowdown experienced ...

Northern Trust names new Australia head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
Northern Trust has appointed Paul Cutts to head of the firm's Australian office in an effort to expand on the company's business throughout the Asia Pacific region. Cutts joined Northern Trust 15 years ago in London and has spent the last two years ...

Adviser charged on $48k theft

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
Perth financial adviser Annemieke De Boer was yesterday sentenced to one year imprisonment and suspended for two years after pleading guilty to stealing $48,000 from a former client. The sentence was the result of a joint investigation conducted by ...

Credit Suisse buys AXE stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Credit Suisse has purchased a stake in the alternative equities trading platform, AXE Electronic Communications Network (ECN). AXE ECN is a fast, low cost way of trading securities by avoiding stock markets, whereby a broker matches buyers and sellers ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The Returned Services League (RSL) has urged the government to reject plans to change the military's retirement fund because the proposed changes could disadvantage military service people. In July last year, the Howard Government created a military ...

Watson Wyatt appoints new global head

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
International consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide has appointed Carl Hess as global head of investment consulting, effective from 1 July 2008. Hess will replace Roger Urwin who takes on a newly created role focusing on the global development and ...

CARE joins Carbon Disclosure Project

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
CARE Super lobbies for better climate change policies after being the latest signatory to the Carbon Disclosure Project. Carbon Disclosure Project is a global not-for-profit group of 385 institutional investors that actively obtain information on company's ...

Magellan Global mirrors Berkshire strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
Research firm Lonsec has rated Magellan Financial Group's (MFG) Global Fund 'recommended' and noted it adopts a similar investment style synonymous to that of the sage of Omaha. Launched in July last year, the Magellan Global Fund equities portfolio ...

Job vacancies bull run falters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
Job vacancies in Australia are finally responding to changing economic conditions falling 1.3 per cent in February to 180,300, the first time they've gone backwards in 11 quarters. The fall doesn't however yet signify an end to the job vacancy bull-run ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
Australian stocks remained firmly in the black at noon after the US Federal Reserve's 75 basis point interest-rate cut and solid results from two major investment banks. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 156.1 points, or 3.07 per cent ...