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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... per cent, at $27.88, while rival Rio Tinto was down 86 cents, or 1.16 per cent, at $73.50. In the US overnight, mixed corporate earnings and gloomy outlooks reminded investors of economic troubles despite massive actions by governments to combat the ...

ANZ appoints Denby

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... head of risk management and credit at Nomura Asia. Before that, he worked at HSBC across risk management and in the corporate, investment banking and markets divisions. He will be based in Hong Kong and report to Chris Page, ANZ chief risk officer and ...

Period of cleansing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... punctuated by investors worried about the negative consequences of the global economic recession - on business activity, on corporate profits, on their investments, on their jobs. This will remain the state of play in the financial markets for a while. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... All Ordinaries added 152.7 points, or 3.73 per cent, to 4,251.4. NEW YORK - US stocks tumbled on Tuesday after mixed corporate earnings and gloomy outlooks reminded investors of economic troubles in the US despite massive actions by governments to combat ...

AMP hit by lower discretionary contributions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... an impact on the AFS business. On the plus side, AMP should benefit from tender wins worth around $200 million by its corporate super business. On the whole, AMP's asset base remains intact. AMP AFS Contemporary Wealth Management (CWM) average AUM was ...

Aussie eq FMs shine in bad markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
Australian large cap equity managers that accounted for increasing commodity prices, corporate debt, a surging Australian dollar and rising global inflation weathered the financial storm better than others in the past 12 months. The Standard & Poor's ...

Gamers target lost super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... increased by $1 billion over one year to $12.9 billion or 6.4 million accounts at the end of June 2008. Minister for corporate law and superannuation, Senator Nick Sherry, said the Australian Tax Office had performed a commendable job on linking people ...

Sentiment seesaw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... Lynch, UBS comes to mind. The current financial turmoil and the global recession will result in a kind of Darwinian corporate natural selection where only the very strong survives. This will be positive for equity markets in the long run. But until then ...

ME to gain market share

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... beyond the three-year deposit guarantee in a market dominated by large banks. Yet, Tony Beck, Members Equity Bank head of corporate and social responsibility, said it was not considering purchasing any credit union or building society. "We feel that ...

Time to buy Aus shares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... proper stock research and shareholder activism to gain long-term growth. "A manager's focus on shareholder activism and corporate governance results in outperformance at this stage of the cycle, just as it probably hindered our returns in the fruity ...