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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
... licenses offset a poor showing from HSBC. The Hang Seng index advanced 82.17 points to 19,026.36. WELLINGTON - Further corporate play in the Australia media sector pushed Canwest Mediaworks shares upwards on a virtually flat sharemarket. The NZSX-50 ...

IPO activity at record levels: Deloitte

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... expected to be cut dramatically from $15.2 billion in 2005 to $8.5 billion in 2006, excluding T3. Steve Woosnam, Deloitte corporate finance partner, explained there were a number of reasons for the reduction in the total value of public floats. "Last ...

Data quality a global problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
... reference data within the next two years. Reference data management means automating static data and the processing of corporate actions data, the areas from which the largest costs originate. Although 22 per cent of the companies interviewed still rely ...

Foreign investors splash $13.8b on M&A

... companies in the first 11 months of 2006, up 91 per cent compared to last year's figures, according to research by KPMG's Corporate Finance practice. "This increase in foreign interest in Australia is a combination of key factors including very buoyant ...

Ex-FAI financial controller sentenced

Antony Boulden, 42, a former financial controller of the corporate and professional insurance division of FAI General Insurance Company (FAIG), was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment to be served by periodic detention. Boulden was sentenced after earlier ...

Putnam banks on fixed income

... to preserve capital. The group also favours mortgage and asset-backed securities over investment grade and high yield corporate bonds. Putnam launched its first offerings under its own brand this year and said that its previous strategic alliances with ...

Tyndall appoints new MD

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2006
Tyndall has appointed ex-Asteron chief operating officer, corporate and distribution, Brett Himbury as managing director to replace Barry Sheehan. Himbury will report to Dennis Fox, chief executive of parent Promina Financial Services, and will be responsible ...

MLC adds to implemented consulting team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
... team. David Klug joins MLC from his most recent posting with Metropolitan Life in South Africa where he headed up the corporate consulting team. Klug has also spent time with Anglo American Corporation and the South African Government. Klug is tasked ...

ASIC should adopt dollar-base performance metrics: ISN

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
... that over one, three and five years industry super funds, on average, delivered more dollars for their members in both corporate and personal superannuation funds. This is the tenth quarter in a row demonstrating industry fund out-performance, said W ...

Party like it's 1999: Allianz Global

... continue. "There is no reason for it to stop. Despite slowdown in liquidity creation, we are not at the end of this corporate activity cycle yet," she said. On the domestic front, RCM's head of Australian equities, Jakov Males, said that resources, property ...