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SimCorp appoints services head

SimCorp has promoted William Fraser to professional services manager for Australia and New Zealand. SimCorp has appointed William Fraser as professional services manager, Australia and New Zealand, reporting to SimCorp Asia managing director, Peter ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
The Australian sharemarket hit an all-time record in early morning trade, with both key indices up by more than one per cent by noon, boosted by a surge on Wall Street on Friday night. At 1202 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 73.2 points ...

Another DIY take on home ownership

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
With housing affordability continuing to deteriorate, one of the country's largest banks has come up with a way to get mums-and-dads access to residential property investments without the stamp duty costs nor the tenancy headaches. Westpac Residential ...

Green paper bags top IFSA/Deloitte award

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
Ben Hare, equities dealer at Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management, has won the IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Award for his research paper on the implications of climate change on the investment industry. Each of the 13 candidates needed to be under ...

Franklin Templeton appoints real estate exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
Global real estate investment firm, Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors (FTREA), has appointed Ilkka Tomperi to vice president of private real estate. Tomperi will be responsible for identifying private real estate fund investment opportunities ...

Home sweet home

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
Global markets seem to regaining some dignity after the sub-prime scrum and even the Dow and the S&P have managed to dust themselves off a little. However the same cannot be said for America's housing market. While Australian's are struggling with record ...

DIY investors all cashed up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
Self managed super fund (SMSF) investors may not have a crystal ball on hand but a new survey found that many of them sold out of property and equities well before the July/August market correction. A joint study of more than 2,100 SMSFs back in May ...

Little fish and the big picture

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
The past five weeks has given some investors a classic lesson in the difficulty of timing markets. Expectations of more bad news saw the bears in a sell-off before being forced to buy back in as shares rebounded - a turn around that has enabled shares ...

Australia versus economic escargot

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
France may be broke according to its Prime Minister, who has been airing his financial dirty linen in Corsica, but Australia by all reports is a fiscal high achiever. During a trip to Corsica, France's Prime Minister, Francois Fillon made the unpopular ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower today after stocks fell on Wall Street, as 73,000 workers at General Motors launched a nation-wide strike. This is in spite of higher metal prices overnight and a record-setting performance yesterday ...