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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... Australian share market shrugged off renewed fears of a US recession yesterday, closing higher as the local resource sector took heart from a weaker US dollar and better commodity prices. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 closed up 106 points, or 1.93 per cent ...

SecuritEase on the defense after Tricom fallout

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... recent introduction of a new internal settlement and clearing system". A media report last month portrayed SecuritEase as the heart of Tricom's systems woes. Tricom has since retracted the statement and said the phrase quoted in the media article was ...

Russell MM scores top marks

... Russell's manager research process," Chris Corneil, managing director of Russell Investor Services, said. It helps that at the heart of the group's research is its direct contact with managers. In the last year alone, Russell undertook over 4,600 investor ...

ETFs weather one-stock shocks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
According to Ord Minnett head of research and investment strategist Simon Kent-Jones, investors burnt from the Centro Properties fallout could have lessened the heartache of their losses had they invested in ETFs rather than direct company shares. "In ...

Wikis may be working for Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
The arrival of Gail Kelly at the helm of Westpac may accelerate the bank's adoption of "Web 2.0" tools such as blogs, wikis and social networks, allowing staff to share information freely and collaborate online. The bank already has around 1000 user ...

Insurance that gives and gives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
... Children's Foundation Australia, the Royal Children's Hospital and the Royal Institute for the Deaf and Blind Children. The Baker Heart Research Institute, the Australian Advisory Board on Autism Spectrum Disorders and Peter Mac are also available for ...

Valad splurges $138m for debut purchase

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
Time waits for no man, and Valad Property Group has certainly taken the proverb to heart as it wastes little time in snapping up three London office properties with its newly established UK Opportunity Fund. The $137.8 million purchase is the first ...

Concepts in risk 101

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... about 20 per cent of the $1.3 trillion dollar market now in arrears. Many sub-prime mortgagees have been enjoying sweat-heart interest rates of 3 per cent and around $450 billion of those mortgages are due to have their first 'rate-reset' in the next ...

AXA re-writes individual insurance

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
... 12 months after a payment. "The unique feature of our offer is that AXA will also pay a partial benefit for a cancer or heart attack event that is related to, or caused by, the original trauma event," said.AXA's national development manager for financial ...

Economic round-up: The great interest rate debate

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
... strategy on timing, for what most economists agree as an inevitable interest rate hike, is anyone's guess and therein lies the heart of the debate.