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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
The Australian share market had lost nearly two per cent by midday today after a broker downgraded a major US institution related to suB-prime mortgage writedowns and lower base metal prices hit resource stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

SSgA restructures global asset team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... liability driven investments (LDI), Marinella will attempt to improve State Street's active fixed income businesses. Other major appointments include Alistair Lowe as chief investment officer of global asset allocation and currency, Steve Meier as chief ...

India calls for better financial services

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... transforming the way they save by moving from banks to mutual funds and equity investments is expected to fuel this further. "A major chunk of the savings have been going into bank deposits, but this is slowly changing." Similar to Australia, this has ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... Ltd hold their annual general meetings. The Australian share market ended higher yesterday, boosted by the big miners and major banking stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 73.3 points to 6535.2 and the All Ordinaries added 75.2 points to 6601.3. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... lost given the strength of trade today." Mr Land singled out the big banks and the big end of the resources sector as the major drivers behind the market today. Takeover fever added weight to mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. Rio was up $4.69 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... After see-sawing through most of the day as the market was buffeted by worries over the housing slump and the credit crisis, major indices mounted a swift upturn in the last half hour of trade as investors bid up shares of technology companies such as ...

What members want

A Telstra Super research study on what its members want has revealed some surprising results, including how much people are willing to pay and for what services. Speaking at the ASFA conference yesterday, Telstra Super's general manager in marketing ...

Platforms control two-thirds of planner FUA

... non-aligned planning groups where the market was becoming most dynamic. On Tuesday 26 November Rainmaker will release a major new report on the platform market covering business flows, which platforms, managers and adviser groups are winning, what innovations ...

Kingsway Taitz scores two new mandates

... score of 6.56 out of seven - the highest score in the region and the second highest in the survey. In doing so, it beat major incumbents CITCO, who scored 6.24 and HSBC Securities Service, whose Hong Kong office scored 5.83. ATC Group came in top at ...

Poor transparency not operations caused sub-prime: Moss

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... nearly so severe as the sort of problems that beset the global banking industry in the early 1990s. Moss said this means major financial institutions are not under any strategic threat due to the sub-prime correction. "We haven't in our view got a 1990s ...