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Macq targets Asian real estate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
Singapore, China and Tokyo will continue to provide significant opportunities for growth in property and real estate on the back of sustained economic growth throughout the region, according to Rod Cornish, head of Macquarie real estate research. Cornish ...

SAP and CSC join forces on pricing

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
Business software provider SAP has announced a joint venture with Computer Sciences Corporation to create a new pricing scenario program for CSC's bank clients. The new joint venture will combine SAP's Price Optimization software with CSC's Hogan Core ...

Austock ploughs more into property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
Austock will introduce new listed and unlisted property products next year, along with international equity and high yield funds, according to managing director Tim Boyle. The company will use the remaining $5.5 million of its $10.5 million float bounty ...

Platforms demand liquidity on alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
As alternative assets become more essential in a balanced portfolio, platforms are still coming to grips with the liquidity and pricing issues surrounding the asset class. Geoff Lloyd, chief executive at Asgard Wealth Solutions, said Asgard's platform ...

Land of the rising small caps

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
Morgan Stanley's global small cap portfolio is steering away from Australia's resource sector and refocusing on Japan's value stocks, according to managing director and co-head of international and global small cap value strategies, Margaret Naylor. ...

Govt to address underinsurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
More than one in two planners believe that the government should take a lead in tackling the country's chronic underinsurance, according to a financial planner poll. More than 50 per cent of the attendees at this month's ING OneCare Express roadshow ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
The Australian stockmarket had made solid gains by midday today pushed up by financial stocks after confidence returned to Wall Street overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 77.8 points higher at 6593 while the All Ordinaries gained ...

Consultum sets 20pc planner growth target

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
IOOF has set a target to increase planner numbers at its subsidiary Consultum by 20 per cent in the next year, according to chief executive Tony Robinson. While Consultum had already increased planner numbers this year, Robinson said they would still ...

Macq goes global

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
Macquarie's continued push into overseas markets has helped the group post a record half-yearly profit of $1.06 billion after tax. The results are a 45 per cent increase over the group's $730 million profit for the same period last year. The profit ...

Takeover merchants

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
After stalling during August and September's credit storm, private equity in Australia is experiencing a renaissance, while US PE giants like Blackstone are still weathering the sub-prime storm. Private equity's bruises from August's global liquidity ...