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Macquarie grows Life team

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... has been appointed head of product and actuarial, Suzanne Evans as senior underwriter and Robert McNeil as business development manager, Queensland. Longden joins Macquarie Life from Asteron, where he worked for four years in actuarial roles, leading ...

Don't strangle sovereign funds: OECD

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned countries against enforcing greater foreign investment restrictions because it could negatively affect domestic economic growth. To address national security issues such as ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower after US stocks slid as investors sold off financial shares on fears that funding for leveraged buyouts could dry up and hurt bank profits. Base metals were up in London. At 0702 AEDT on the Sydney ...

MFS breaches $184m loan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
MFS Premium Income Fund is engaging the Bank of Scotland in talks following a multi-million dollar loan facility breach. The fund's auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers notes the fund has breached a loan facility of $184 million with third party bank, the ...

ITG focuses on after-tax benchmarks

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
Finance technology firm Investment Technology Group (ITG) has found a way to combine advanced technology with improved market data quality to make customised after-tax benchmarks a reality. According to ITG product manager for market data analytics ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... the second day of the Energy & Water Regulation 2008 conference, and in Broome, it is the last day of the Resource Development in the North West Kimberley Region conference. The Australian stock market closed nearly unchanged yesterday, with the big ...

SecuritEase on the defense after Tricom fallout

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... this year. "GBST are not prepared to comment on hearsay and rumours within the industry," said Paul Beal, business development manager at GBST. "I am surprised that [Tonkin] would have made that commentary given that he would not have been privy to any ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... Melbourne's northern outskirts for $73.5 million. The developer said the end value of the 65-hectare greenfield town centre development is estimated at about $400 million. J-REP, a joint venture between integrated property group, Goodman Group, and Macquarie ...

SELECT expands senior team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
Select Asset Management (SELECT) has appointed Andrew Fairweather to head of corporate development and Jonas Daly to institutional investment specialist. Brendan Foley, SELECT managing director, said Fairweather is in the process of completing his role ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... of the Energy & Water Regulation 2008 conference. In Broome, Western Australia it is the last day of the Resource Development in the North West Kimberley Region Conference and, in Perth, the Contract Mining Strategies conference is being held. Australian ...