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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... $11.76. Ms Saly said BHP Billiton appreciated in London trade on Friday, preventing the FTSE from sliding deeper into the red. This was because the mining giant said it was still in a strong position, hadn't trimmed its production yet and said it expected ...

Northern Trust adopts FpML

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Northern Trust's Australian clients can trade derivatives more efficiently after the firm added the Financial Product Mark-up Language (FpML) messaging format to its over the counter (OTC) derivatives trading service. The messaging technology automates ...

Mortgage trusts face crisis of confidence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
The fate of the country's $23 billion mortgage trust sector is in the hands of the more than 150,000 investors who now have to decide whether to stay put or bail out before more mortgage trusts freeze redemptions. The federal government's bank deposit ...

MTAA campaign halves death claims

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
MTAA Super's suicide death claims fell by 53 per cent since the fund launched its mental health awareness campaign, readthesigns, in 2004. The readthesigns initiative between MTAA Super and Lifeline Australia was launched in 2004 as a result the trustee's ...

More pain for insurance firms

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
Global insurance brokerage firm Aon has warned that following AIG's troubles and government rescue, there will be more bad news from insurers as the sector undergoes mass asset depletion and capital shortage. Speaking yesterday at Aon's 2008 Advanced ...

This too shall pass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
'The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.' (Jesse Livermore). While most of us were sleeping (those lucky enough to have their A$1 turn to A$0.80 instead of A$0.20), Wall Street was ...

MLC upgrades its group insurance suite

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
MLC is raising the bar in group insurance, providing super funds with more insurance options at no extra cost. MLC's salary continuance benefits now cover 10 specific illnesses, which means members can receive double benefits for up to six months. For ...

Challenger squeezes redemptions

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
Challenger has tightened the redemption policies of its Challenger Howard Mortgage Fund and other mortgage products following significant increases in fund outflows. Challenger's investors have been retrieving their investments following the Federal ...

Chile not so hot on fixed income

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
The Chilean Pension Fund Administrators' Association (CPAA) urged its young members not to reduce their allocation in equities in favour of fixed income in the wake of the global financial crisis. CPAA, the umbrella body representing the equivalent ...

Period of cleansing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
Where's a poor investor going to look? On the right, there are hopeful signs that liquidity is starting to trickle. On the left, the number of countries falling into an economic recession is increasing. Over the past few days, equity market rallies ...