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Weekly economic round-up

Like a dodgy taxi meter, the price of crude oil has lately been ticking higher almost every day. So much so that concerns are beginning to mount over the negative repercussion on inflation and global growth. Escalating prices of crude oil has relegated ...

Daily economic update

Economic data released today becomes less significant for forward viewing compared with the continuing escalation in crude oil prices. Crude oil set a new record US$72.49 high in overnight trade after a car bomb in Nigeria kept alive investor concerns ...

Asgard flags plan to step ahead of competitors

St George-owned Asgard Wealth Solutions has flagged a raft of initiatives to be rolled out later this year including improvements to AdviserNET, a new 'quasi equity' scheme for planners and an increased focus on Generation Y clients. These were just ...

Trafalgar shifts strategy and ditches some non-core assets

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2006
... as investment director, and the Brisbane property have already been exchanged. Final approval is however dependant on pre-sale conditions being met. In the case of the Enhanced Income Fund, the sale must be approved at an extraordinary general meeting ...

MacarthurCook boosts retail team

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2006
Funds management group MacarthurCook has appointed a former Allianz Global Investors sales manager to head up its retail distribution team. Domenic Sita, former senior manager of retail business at Allianz, has been appointed head of retail business ...

Grange scores new equities director and researcher

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
Grange Securities is rebuilding its equities team with the appointment of a director to head the institutional equities team. Peter Talbot, formerly a director of Patersons, head of domestic equities sales at JP Morgan and before that at County NatWest/Saloman ...

Daily Economic Update

The US National Association of Realtors (NAR) expects existing home sales to fall by 6.0 per cent this year, new home sales to drop by 10.9 per cent and housing starts to decline by 3.2 per cent. These forecasts, if proved correct, have serious ramifications ...

Future Fund appointee's business cops downgrades from Fitch

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2006
... announcement NMRA had offloaded that part of the business to Invesco Bank. Fitch hit the funds with downgrades soon after the sale was announced, believing that bondholders in NMRA were likely to have their positions weakened by the sale and the new ...

DeAM bolsters sales team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2006
Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has announced two key appointments to bolster its sales and distribution team. DeAM, the global asset management business of Deutsche Bank, has appointed Andrew Davies as head of retail alternative product distribution ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2006
... Shares of 3M, a component of the Dow industrials, rose as the diversified manufacturer unveiled plans that could result in the sale of its drug business. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 58.91 points to 11,203.85. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index ...