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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... per cent, to 31.5 cents. Making news on Monday, Murchison Metals fell 6.5 cents, or 8.5 per cent, to 70 cents after the company said costs at the embattled Oakajee port and rail project had blown out. National turnover in Australia was 995 million securities ...

Aust foreign finance subsidiaries worth $71b

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
Foreign subsidiaries of Australian wealth groups are worth $71 billion and employ 76,000 staff, revealed a new ABS finance sector survey. Recording $28 billion in offshore sales in 2009-10, insurance and pension fund services comprised 63% of this total ...

CFSGAM sees ESG improve returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... CFSGAM. "Critical to that process is appropriate consideration of ESG issues as these factors significantly impact long-term company performance." CFSGAM said it wants to see the investment industry take more responsibility in encouraging companies to ...

Strong cash flow doubles Countplus dividend

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... taking on new enterprises. In September last year it announced the purchase of a 25 per cent stake in Cartwright Brown & Company Financial Planning which had $275 million in funds under management. Last October it bought Total Financial Solutions Advisers ...

Equipsuper clears merger hurdle with Vision

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... pooled trust before combining the super fund entities. Danielle Press, chief executive of Equipsuper, said a joint venture company made up of both super funds was to become the new trustee of the pooled trust. But on May 25, Vision trustees were unable ...

AllianceBernstein bullish on molecular medicine

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... expected to grow in revenue from US$1.6 billion in 2010 to US$4.6 billion by 2015. It also has investments in storage company Isilon, graphics processing firm Invidia and Amazon, all of which are likely to capitalise on the growth. Amazon is benefiting ...

ANZ Wealth names head of finance

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... managing director, said Frechtling's experience managing large scale business mergers and changes makes him an asset to the company.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... chief financial officer and board member John Stanhope would retire at the end of 2011 after more than four decades at the company. Telstra was down one cent at $2.90. Asciano shares rose three cents to $1.58 after the company said it had renewed an ...

Landmark case against board duty failure

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... former executives of Centro Properties Group, finding the board had been wrong when it didn't disclose all debt within the company. The Court found that ignorance is no longer a justifiable excuse for both executive and non-executive directors for failure ...

Company streamlines pension transfers from UK to Australia

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
A new company has harnessed cloud computing software to connect financial advisers to pensions experts in the UK to streamline the process of transferring UK pensions to Australia. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there were 1.04 million ...