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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... Bureau of Statistics releases lending finance data for July. In company news, Sigma Pharmaceuticals Ltd releases its half year financial results. On Friday the local market closed at an 11-month high after positive news about China's industrial output ...

SMSFs targeted in $428k swindle

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
A man has been jailed and his wife charged with aiding and abetting dishonest conduct for stealing nearly half a million dollars from self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation ...

AMP Capital Investors block poor corp governance

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... re-election of poor performing board directors and poorly-structured fund raising. AMP Capital's proxy voting report in the half year to June 30 helps illustrate how a fund manager can help empower the investors they represent by voting against company ...

Gen insurance posts 61pc fall in NPAT

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... cent to $92.7 billion over the same period. The regulator's Half Yearly General Insurance Bulletin, found that in the half year to December 31, 2008, general insurers forked out more funds to cover claim costs, up $3.4 billion to $25.8 billion in gross ...

AXA Asia Pac half year net profit up 187pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
AXA Asia Pacific Holdings posted half-year net profit after income tax and non-recurring items of $270.4 million, nearly treble the $94.2 million recorded the same time last year - "strong results" underpinned by the group's revenue bias towards the ...

SMSF intl equities allocation halves

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Self managed super fund (SMSF) allocations to international shares has almost halved over a one and a half year period. The Multiport SMSF Survey - June 2009, which randomly selects 1,000 SMSFs it administers, found allocations to international shares ...

Macq Airport buys management rights

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
In a deal worth $345 million, Macquarie Capital and Macquarie Airports have agreed to a change in the Airports' management structure, investment fee model and company name, subject to shareholder approval. Under the agreement, the Macquarie Airports ...

Microsoft battles Google Docs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... Microsoft's more aggressive foray into the web-apps sector - starting with the launch of its online Office during the first half year of 2010 to coincide with the launch of Office 2010, according to overseas reports. And for all the talk that cloud computing ...

Mutual funds gain record flows

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... major benefactors of this injection. More than 60 emerging market funds gained over $120 million in flows during the half year. Asian equity funds were also popular with over $2 billion flowing to Changsheng fund and more than $1 billion flowing to the ...

IFSA appoints Brogden as CEO

IFSA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
The former New South Wales Liberal Party and opposition leader, John Brogden, has been appointed chief executive of the Investment & Financial Services Association. Brogden will take up his post on 28th of August, following the resignation of IFSA's ...