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Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

There's been a major reshuffle in the annual list of the world's 500 largest fund managers after the spate of mergers and demergers that rocked the industry last year. According to the annual Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt World 500 Ranking Survey ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a strong lead from Wall Street and mostly firmer commodities prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0733 AEST, the December share price index contract was up 51 points at 5,047. Today ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
The Australian share market continued to strengthen by noon helped by the positive lead from Wall Street and a switch into defensive stocks such as the banks. At 1206 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 15.2 points to 5,0001.5 while the all ordinaries ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a strong lead from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0726 AEST, the December share price index contract was up 34 points at 5,012. Today, Western Uranium is due to list on the ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
The Australian stock market at noon today was firmer as takeover activity helped lift it from a weak start. In early trading, the market was lower on the back of a soft lead from United States markets and falling commodity prices, but picked up as billion-dollar-plus ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open lower following a weak lead from world markets. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0740 AEST, the December share price index contract was down 24 points to 4,966. Today, upmarket clothing and accessories ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
The Australian share market remained in negative territory today held back by a fall on Wall Street. Stronger commodity prices, particularly in oil and gold, made the resource stocks the exception to the general downturn. At 1211 AEST the benchmark ...

Adelaide Bank targets growth through wealth management

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2006
Retiring Adelaide Bank chief executive, Barry Fitzpatrick, said the bank will aim for greater revenue diversification by ramping up the wealth management side of the business. Fitzpatrick's report in the bank's annual report, released yesterday, reveals ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2006
The number of jobs created last month rose by 23,400 in seasonally adjusted terms to take the national number of people employed to 10.2655 million. Better news was that most of the employment gain was in full-time jobs which increased by 22,600 to ...

Suncorp increases market share and profits

Suncorp's announcement of $1 billion in underlying profit in its annual results has triggered the possibility of a share buy-back - good news for investors. Suncorp chairman, John Story, said the group's strong balance sheet could drive a return of ...