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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... was off 30 cents at $28.65. In other news, Billabong shares have recovered a little following Tuesday's plunge when the company lost half its market capitalisation after flagging asset sales to pay down debt as takeover talks collapsed. The stock was ...

CSC awards Challenger $250 million mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... confirmed. The mandate was the first to be signed to Challenger's "Relative Value Debt Strategy" (RVDS) which permits the company to invest mandated capital into senior secured debt in commercial property, infrastructure and buy-outs. It is understood ...

AFA moves into broadcast to promote advice vision

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... receiving financial advice and that's a 50% increase." Fox revealed that the AFA has hired the services of an external company to produce the program and that at least two partners within the financial services industry have already contributed to the ...

Employers divided on internal social media effectiveness

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... is little consensus as to which tools are most effective. According to a flash survey by global professional services company Towers Watson instant messaging was the most popular internal tool with 73% of employers encouraging staff to use it. But of ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... so far in 2013. It lost $6.64 to hit $57.90, after revealing sales in the second half of 2013 "have been weaker" as the company waited for approval to sell its new Nucleus 6 product in the United States and Europe. Telstra is also under pressure as the ...

Rubik to focus on boutique financial planning

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... Financial Standard. The acquisition has made Rubik Financial the sole provider of COIN-based solutions in the market and the company expects to be able to align its current Provisio software with COIN in September. "Our clients will have an enhanced ...

Board quotas an "embarrassment" for Australia: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... into the appointments of non-executive directors revealed inherent prejudice. "Around 80% of the men appointed to ASX 200 company boards did not have previous or current experience as an ASX 200 board member. This starkly contrasted with the appointment ...

AFS goes into liquidation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... voluntary liquidation, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The resolution to wind up the company was made yesterday by creditors. At the same time AFS Group's administrators Rachel Burdett-Baker and Luke Targett ...

Wellington Capital to take PIF case to High Court

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... the distribution of shares, as opposed to cash, to PIF unit holders. "Unit holders who now hold shares in an unlisted company and shares in a company are an entirely different species of property from units in a managed investment scheme," the court ...

Mercer tests the water of 'fair capitalism'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... social, and governance issues," Birgden said. Asset managers, therefore, must "understand the potential risks that that company is facing and to see that the company is responding adequately to those risks."