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GESB revamps website

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
Western Australia's largest superannuation fund, the Government Employees Superannuation Board (GESB), has revamped their website to help better educate their members and answer their superannuation-related questions. The website includes a superannuation ...

Pengana wins $150m QIC mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... significant challenges for institutional investors and their clients. The Global Volatility fund invests in the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX) or "fear index" measuring expected volatility in the US S&P 500 index. Nick Griffiths ...

Centric Wealth appoints new directors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
Independently owned wealth advisory group, Centric Wealth, has reshuffled its board of directors ahead of its planned initial public offering next year. Roger Davis has been appointed chairman with Martin Bloom, David MacKenzie, Alan Schwartz and Russel ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... points to 5,535.56. TOKYO - Stocks fell as a sharp rise in the yen and tumble on Wall Street triggered a sell-off across the board. The Nikkei declined 386.33 points, or 2.48 per cent, to 15,197.09. HONG KONG - Blue chips sank 3.88 per cent and China ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... for the time being by BHP Billiton's $272 billion bid for rival Rio Tinto. Though the bid has been rejected by Rio Tinto's board, a merger would create one of the world's five largest companies. The market expects BHP to come back with another offer. ...

Killer inflation - three fatalities

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... expects inflation will peak at 3.25 per cent by mid-2008, then fall back to the upper end of the target band in 2009. The Board also noted, "at this stage of a long economic expansion that inflation will be more difficult to contain, particularly if ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... Partners, which specialises in Islamic investments. The company's researchers meet directly with a dedicated Shariah Supervisory Board, comprised of Islamic scholars.

CommBank buys IWL

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
The Commonwealth Bank has taken over broking technology provider IWL, dismissing the company's board and replacing chief executive Otto Buttula. The purchase became final after the Victorian Supreme Court authorised court orders lodged by IWL on Friday. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... cent, to 6555 on a volume of 17,576 contracts. CMC markets senior dealer Dominic Vaughan said the market was down across the board, with the oil price lower and other commodity prices weak. "It is very well off at the moment," he said. "It has sold off ...

Sub-prime chewing up financials

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... greenback kicked the weak US dollar, which fell to its lowest in 30 years against a basket of six major currencies. The New York Board of Trade's dollar index dropped to 75.077, the lowest since the gauge started in March 1973. With the dollar's fall ...