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ANZ to become top four bank in Vietnam

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... receiving a licence of incorporation from the State Bank of Vietnam. The landmark move was witnessed by Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who both attended the presentation of the licence to ANZ chief Mike ...

Fortis bank $19.5bn bail-out 'stabilises' FIA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... to save the bank from following the collapse of its US banking counterparts such as Lehman Brothers. Belgium's Prime Minister Yves Leterme also said in international media reports that the savings of the bank's deposit holders - with Belgians making ...

Markets are a public good: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
Australia may be a small country but it took Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2,700 word speech to the United Nations on Friday to articulate a way out of the global financial mess. The speech was in contrast to US Treasury secretray Henry Paulson's widely ...

This Week's Movers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... US -- government is on hold until the November elections -- and Japan -- a replacement still has to be found for Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda who resigned last week -- kept investors on the defensive. As expected, only the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... exporters. The market made up some lost ground after a fall the previous day triggered by political uncertainty after Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's sudden resignation. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's benchmark Nikkei-225 index rose 80.12 points to close at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... cent, to 4,539.07. TOKYO - Japanese share prices fell 1.75 per cent on Tuesday, hitting a five-month low after Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's abrupt resignation threw Asia's largest economy into another political crisis. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's benchmark ...

AusSuper drives MEB review

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... Industry Funds Management. Grant is the former chief executive of Cbus and De Salis worked as an adviser to former prime minister Paul Keating and later for AMP. The new appointments could be perceived as strengthening Weaven's influence over the merged ...

Fix contributions, then worry about fees: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... important than fixing fees and administrative efficiencies, said superannuation's political architect and former Prime Minister, Paul Keating. "You can fluff around about fees and getting internal efficiencies in funds but contributions is the key," ...

Climate change opportunities, not just costs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... getting on board when we did'." There are also big opportunities transitioning current major industries. "When the Prime Minister was recently in China he said to the Chinese that we are the world's biggest coal exporter and they are the biggest buyer. ...

Australian Ethical HQ wins Banksia award

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... Trevor Pearcey House, won the Banksia Environmental Foundation award for the Built Environment - an award backed by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The refurbished building produces about 70 per cent fewer greenhouse emissions than an average commercial building ...