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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
... back below $US63 a barrel, although a broader advance was limited by concerns that slowing economic growth could hurt corporate profits. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 29.21 points to close at 11,718.45, its highest close for 2006. That figure ...

Super assets surge to $914 billion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
... growth for public sector funds shows this segment is well and truly alive and kicking. The collapse in the stand-alone corporate fund segment is again confirmed by their 3.4 per cent growth not even matching CPI. With Australia's gross external debt ...

Zurich corporate super businesses for sale

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
Zurich Australia is selling off its corporate superannuation businesses Zurich i.super_invest Superannuation (i.super) and Finium Super Master Plan, informing staff this morning that management are currently in discussions with a "number of interested ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
... record high, as an unexpected rise in August new home sales renewed optimism about consumer spending and the outlook for corporate profits. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 19.85 points to close at 11,689.24, after climbing to a session high at ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
... second-highest close ever, as an unexpectedly big jump in consumer confidence eased investor worries about the effect on corporate profits, of slowing economic growth. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 93.58 points, or 0.81 per cent, at 11,669.39 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
... effected by the visit to the Yasukuni war shrine by the previous Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi. He supports stronger corporate regulation, a Japanese army with a mandate to undertake missions abroad, a more efficient government and attending to the ...

InvestAhead to merge into Centric Wealth

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
Sydney based financial planning, risk insurance and corporate benefit services provider InvestAhead will merge with larger financial planning firm Centric Wealth. The merger will see InvestAhead's three directors, Chandra Wirasinha, Mike Galgut and ...

Aussie vice chairman for Credit Suisse Asia Pac

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
Credit Suisse has announced that its current investment bank head of fixed income and co-head of corporate client coverage in non-Japan Asia and Australia has been appointed executive vice chairman of asset management for the Asia Pacific. In his current ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
... second-highest close ever, as an unexpectedly big jump in consumer confidence eased investor worries about the effect on corporate profits, of slowing economic growth. A second day of gains in stocks also helped push the S&P 500 index to a five-and-a-half-year ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
... points higher at 2,249.07 as oil prices and benchmark interest rates hit multi-month lows, improving the outlook for corporate profits.