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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
The Australian sharemarket was in the red at noon following sharp falls in base metal prices and another soft lead from Wall Street. At 1202 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 33.2 points lower at 6495.4, while the All Ordinaries had declined ...

QIC appoints head of insto

Fresh from a raft of external appointments, QIC has looked internally to fill the spot of head of institutional business. This month, QIC has appointed Tony Cahill, formerly the business relationship manager at the group's alternative investment strategies ...

Sub-prime's house of cards

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
Like a house of cards near an open window, many things tumbled overnight - US shares, the ASX/S&P 200, Asian stocks, the FTSE, US bond yields, gold, base metals, the Aussie dollar and, on the upside, oil prices also dropped. Asian markets tumbled after ...

Taggart partners with Zurich to reach home-based business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
The Taggart Group has partnered with Zurich to distribute general and life insurance products to home-based business throughout Australia via a direct distribution website. The website, called www.homebasedbusiness.com.au, is only in its early phases ...

OneCare works

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
From being one of the bottom-performing retail insurance providers four years ago, ING Australia has made a comeback. The biggest success story this year has been insurance platform OneCare, according to chief financial officer Ian Riley. The product ...

Quant experts enter new continuum

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
Former GMO quantitative managers Max Cappetta and Anthony Corr have resurfaced and teamed up with former MIR quant director Brett McElwee to form their own boutique - Continuum Capital Management. The new boutique will come under the wing of boutique ...

Macq DDR chief executive resigns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
Macquarie DDR Management chief executive Nick Ridgewell has resigned, effective November 9. Ridgewell will take a position as head of Asian property at Morley in Singapore. Simon Jones, co-head of Macquarie Real Estate Capital, has been appointed acting ...

Deloitte merges with analytics boutique

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
Deloitte's Data Analytics group has announced it will merge with boutique data analytics firm Analytic Insight. The team of eight consultants based in Sydney and Melbourne will join an existing national practice of 70 at Deloitte. Deloitte chief executive ...

K2 back on IPO path

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
K2 Asset Management Holdings (K2) has declared that market conditions are now right to re-list on the ASX, after withdrawing its initial public offering in August. Campbell Neal, executive director at K2 Asset Management, previously said a listing in ...

Euro PE due for bull run: Adveq

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
Europe could see more small or mid-size private equity buyouts in the near future, thanks to larger corporations repositioning and smaller businesses looking for succession solutions, according to European independent private equity fund of funds manager ...