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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... and metal prices advanced as the US dollar fell, driving up the shares of Chevron Corp and Alcoa Inc. Investors also took heart from fresh data suggesting the economy, while soft, was not crumbling rapidly. The Dow Jones industrial average finished up ...

Finsia names new president

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... driven professional standards. "Chris has been instrumental in the creation and repositioning of Finsia, keeping us at the heart of the industry as we embraced the significant convergence between banking, wealth management and capital markets," said ...

Bad genes won't hurt insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
... heels of growing genetic research that enables better and more accurate assessment of an individual's predisposition to heart-related diseases or obesity-related illnesses later in life. Globally, cancer rates are rising partly because of changing longevity ...

Super funds pay little attention to biotech

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... in human health care, in diagnostics, devices and invest in industrial and environmental projects," he said. And at the heart of each biotech company's success is the people at the helm of the firm's management. A solid management team is the key ingredient ...

Bad markets, good advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... open with their clients, using materials provided by their licensees. It is a piece of advice that has so far been taken to heart by several superannuation funds. For example, AustralianSuper urged its members in a statement on its website to read their ...

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 ...