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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open strongly today after Wall Street experienced its second-largest point gain on record and Asian markets also surged. At 0800 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

UBank brand not quite ready for NAB

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
National Australia Bank chose the height of the second stage of the great credit crunch as the right time to introduce its alternative retail bank brand UBank to the Australian market. The first product for NAB's UBank is an aggressively priced three-month ...

Grow returns with timber

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
Swiss private bank Pictet is launching an investment fund that not only exposes investors to potential long term returns from the timber industry but could also aid efforts to reduce global carbon emissions. The firm's PF(LUX) - Timber Fund invests ...

BGIA expands insto team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
Barclays Global Investors Australia (BGIA) appointed Charmayne Connelly and Simon Brinsmead as client manager and consultant manager respectively. Connelly previously worked at Wellington Management in a similar client relationship role. Prior to this ...

AXA IM targets Aus instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
AXA Group's Paris-based asset management business is providing its expertise across European property, private equity, structured finance and fund of hedge funds to Australian institutions. Craig Hurt, AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) director of Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower after US stocks fell by two per cent overnight. At 0738 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index futures contract was down 90 points at 4,911. Today, annual results are ...

Peak oil bigger problem than climate change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
Peak oil is a much more immediate problem than climate change, delegates at a Finsia seminar heard yesterday. But the potential ramifications of climate change just make the problem worse, said Ian Dunlop, a former petroleum engineer who is now the ...

Planners miss sustainable mark: Fahy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
Financial planners must embrace sustainability as a serious wealth management issue or risk losing existing clients, according to Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) chief executive, Martin Fahy. Fahy said research conducted with Griffith ...

KiwiSaver to drive fin literacy

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Gen X and Y Kiwis will be much more financially savvy than their predecessors because of the KiwiSaver scheme, predicts BT Funds Management. The New Zealand arm of BT Funds Management claims that in less than 20 years, an increasing number of young ...

MLC adopts paraplanning referral service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Financial services firm MLC is dropping its paraplanning strategy with ThreeSixty and moving its financial planning service to a referral model. MLC set up ThreeSixty in 1999 and has been using the business for all its paraplanning requirements. This ...