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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Australian markets have received mixed leads. While Wall Street was slightly higher in late-afternoon trade, precious metals were higher, copper was up, too, but crude oil ended up lower. At 0709 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after US markets fell on scepticism about the effectiveness of a US stimulus plan and more gloomy economic news. At 0739 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 22 points ...

CommBank's 64,245 margin calls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
The share market meltdown forced CommBank to triple the number of margin calls in the second half of last year. The impact was that the size of the margin loan book plunged from $8 billion to $5.5 billion in six months, though this is in line with the ...

QIC property execs depart

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
Laurie Brindle, head of global real estate and Steven Leigh, deputy head of global real estate at QIC have resigned from the $70 billion fund manager to take up positions at Trinity Property Group. While interim arrangements will be announced shortly ...

Ashton taps vulture funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Multi-manager outfit Ashton Advisors is using its partnership with top performing US-based fund manager Paulson & Co. to thrive and milk opportunities in the wake of the GFC. Ashton, which counts Paulson as one of its managers within its multi-manager ...

TTR strategies need more attention

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
Investors still lack awareness of transition to retirement strategies while many others view super as a "poor investment", according to financial advisory firm HLB Mann Judd. According to Michael Hutton, wealth management partner at HLB Mann Judd, most ...

Snowball buys FP and super businesses

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
Snowball has bought Brisbane based financial planning business Money Mentors and an Adelaide based corporate superannuation business adding approximately $180 million in funds under advice (FUA) to the group. Money Mentors will operate under the group's ...

Members Equity gains Storm sponsorship

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... its brand in Victoria. The sponsorship deal starts next season and Members Equity Bank logos will feature on all training gear, club polos and on the front of the playing jersey. The bank already sponsors two sporting codes in Perth including soccer ...

Mercer invests $35m in commodities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
Mercer's investment arm is tapping into the commodities sector with a $35 million investment mandate in H3's Global Commodities program. H3's commodity program returned more than 13 per cent over a one year period to September against the Dow Jones ...

All not lost for LPTs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
Property is currently the most talked about issue among super funds. Although direct property is smashing its listed counterpart in performance, industry punters caution investors not to discount LPTs as the asset class is expected to bounce back following ...