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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... index was seven points higher at 3,467. In economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its first monthly board meeting for 2009 and is expected to cut interest rates by 100 basis points, taking the cash rate to 3.25 per cent. The Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... futures index was 21 points lower at 3,439. In economic news on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its first monthly board meeting for 2009 and is expected to cut interest rates by 100 basis points, taking the cash rate to 3.25 per cent. The ...

Future Fund posts 6pc loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... materially increasing exposures to debt markets to take advantage of higher returns," said David Murray, chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians. Despite the overall losses, the fund remains staunch in its long term view on investments and will continue ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... economic situation in the US. "It's pretty much expected. "And base metals fell three to four per cent overnight across the board." Debt-laden mining giant Rio Tinto had dropped $1.53, or 3.76 per cent, to $39.18 at 1203 AEDT while rival BHP Billiton ...

ING chief joins IFSA board

ING Australia's chief executive Harry Stout joins the IFSA board. Stout also takes up the position of chair of IFSA's Marketing and Distribution Board Committee. "Stout replaces former director, Rob Coombe who resigned from the IFSA Board on 1 December ...

ING snaps up Sentry stake

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... early last year, which included an option to take a 37.5 per cent stake in the dealer group and two seats on the Sentry Board. According to Harry Stout, ING Australia chief executive, the firm decided to take up the stake to expand its distribution footprint. ...

Unilever Super seeks super provider

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... opportunity for our fund to be part of a much larger facility," noted the statement. Some of the pros include having a trustee board made up of full time professionals, wider investment opportunities, lower investment management fees and increased member ...

Big Sky to aid BHP staff

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... finalising a strategy to help those BHP Billiton employees that lost their jobs, however the financial planning division's board has not yet decided how much it will cost members. Big Sky Financial Solutions already provides Big Sky Credit Union members ...

Brookvine promotes Gray

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
Former GMO co-head of asset allocation, Jack Gray has been promoted to the Brookvine board as director. Alternative investment and fund raising specialist, Brookvine hired Gray in a special advisory role in April last year. This announcement follows ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... American Express Co managed to post profits in a difficult recession. The major indices briefly stumbled after the Conference Board said its Consumer Confidence Index in January slipped to its lowest level since the reading's inception in 1967. At settlement ...