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Today's the day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will convene its monthly Board meeting at 9:30 AM today. By 2:30 PM, financial markets will either get confirmation or disappointment on several weeks of speculation that the RBA will lower the official cash rate ...

NAB Super divests direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
NAB Group Super is expected to sell its last four directly-owned properties as part of a property portfolio restructure. The fund made the move under the advice of its asset consultant JANA Investment Advisers. "The [main objectives] for the sale are ...

ETS is upside down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
If Australia wants its emissions trading system (ETS) to be effective in reducing the nation's greenhouse gas output, it should penalise emissions consumption not its production. Geoff Carmody, founder of Access Economics, told ABC Radio in Canberra ...

AIG takes group insurance online

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
AIG Life is moving its group insurance service online with eForm, an application process that will reduce administration workload and increase the number of applications that can be instantly approved. The eForm gathers all the mandatory underwriting ...

Three steadies and a cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
This Week's Market Movers (1 - 5 Sep 2008) Four of the world's major central banks will hold monetary policy meetings this week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), The Bank of Canada (BoC), the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central Bank (ECB) ...

Austock curbs expansion plans

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
Austock Group's business restructure continues after it posted full year profits down 27 per cent to $8.1 million - although the group is partly redeemed by its $33 million in cash reserves, zero operations in stock lending and better-than-expected ...

Rate cut? maybe not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
There we have it, capital investment by Australian companies - past and planned -- remains solid. This underscores the domestic economy's resilience to the turmoil in the credit markets and the weakening global economy. However, instead of completely ...

QIC's new asset class a hot commodity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... that traditionally uncorrelated markets such as fixed income and equities are starting to behave like each other. The QIC Red Paper found although fixed interest and equity market assets are historically recognised as portfolio diversifiers, the recent ...

IAG and NRMA outsources super admin

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
IAG and NRMA Superannuation Plan have signed up as new clients to Mercer's superannuation outsourcing business. Under the five year deal, Mercer will provide both funds with superannuation administration, helpline and online services. Troy Maguire ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... to get declines in our market," Mr Heffernan said. "That is precisely what has happened." "We will probably finish in the red today, maybe something over one to one-and-a-half per cent." The market started on the back foot after Wall Street slumped two ...