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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... and the broader All Ordinaries shed 168.5 points, or 2.91 per cent, to 5630.9. NEW YORK - US markets were closed for the Martin Luther King Day public holiday. US stock index futures sank in shortened trading on recession fears. Yesterday stocks continued ...

CFS adds muscle to distribution team

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... Funds Management have been appointed national account managers. Previous Colonial First State Queensland state manager, Rob Martin, has been assigned the new position of national manager of alliances. Two new state managers, Andrew Howse and George Walker ...

Take governance seriously or lose investor support

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... in investment funds. This leads to unnecessary conflicts of interests, which should in reality be easy to handle, said Martin Lawrence, lead analyst for Riskmetrics ISS Governance Services. But causing the biggest concern is company annual general meetings ...

Suncorp Aus equities team sets up boutique

... with nine former Suncorp employees including former head of Australian equities Denis Donohue. Joining Donohue are Sean Martin, William Earnshaw, Andrew Gatenby, Bernard Machen, Michael Bell, John Hodder, Damien Keune and Robert Pownell. The new boutique ...

Centric Wealth appoints new directors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... board of directors ahead of its planned initial public offering next year. Roger Davis has been appointed chairman with Martin Bloom, David MacKenzie, Alan Schwartz and Russel Pillemer all appointed non-executive directors. Meanwhile Glen Castensen and ...

Mortgage stress hits record levels

... found there are now 83,000 households living day-to-day on their credit cards, up by 19 per cent from the September survey. Martin North, managing consulting director of Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, said, "Overall, we expect there to be nearly ...

Equities without borders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... lines between international and local equities will soon disappear, according to Schroders' head of Australian equities, Martin Conlon. He said the removal of national barriers between companies, markets and exchanges would lead to an eventual lack of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
... December share price index contract was 76 points higher to 6802 on a volume of 10,703 contracts. CommSec equities economist Martin Arnold said the market was abuzz with takeover talk after the board of Jubilee Mines NL unanimously recommended an all ...

Asset finance companies lose lending share

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... of March this year. Share was down from 10.4 per cent in 2006 and 11.2 per cent in 2005. KPMG financial services partner Martin McGrath said: "A major challenge for the finance company sector is the increasing focus of other players in the industry ...

Finsia appoints new CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007
The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) has appointed Martin Fahy to chief executive, replacing interim chief executive Stephen Harrison. Harrison was appointed interim chief executive in July after Brian Salter has stepped down from ...