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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... companies news, Charter Hall Group holds an extraordinary general meeting to obtain security holder consent to refresh the company's placement capacity. ANZ's chief executive of Asia, Europe and the US, Alex Thursby, and AXA Asia Pacific chief executive ...

Multiport buys AR Group stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... better solution for advisers who are partnering with accountants." AR Group administers over 700 SMSFs and also provides company secretarial services to around 4,000 companies across Australia. Bruce Coombes, founder and managing director of AR Group ...

SMSF education gains traction

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
More than 700 new members have joined SMSF online resource centre, www.thesmsfreview.com.au in its first three weeks of launching. Paragem Dealer Services introduced the website to the financial planning community in late May. Ian Knox, managing director ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... news from Boeing and Illinois Tool Works (ITW). Boeing rose four per cent after increasing production of the 737 jet. The company said customers are adding to existing orders and placing new ones. ITW rose about 2.5 per cent after it raised the lower ...

Contango Microcap appoints distribution head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
Fund manager Contango MicroCap has recruited Boyd Peters, previously at EQT Funds Management, to a newly created senior role in distribution. Peters, who joins Contango as national distribution manager, has 16 years experience in the financial services ...

CommInsure restructures, appoints Browne as GM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
CommInsure has restructured its life insurance business, and appointed former general manager of Financial Wisdom, Tim Browne, as general manager, retail advice. The restructure will incorporate a "line of business" approach for each of its dedicated ...

UK pension lose $6bn on BP oil spill

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... around 6 per cent exposure to BP, which means pension funds, on average, have roughly 1.5 per cent exposure to the oil company or $20 billion in assets. This represents a $6.6 billion loss to pension funds given the oil giant's share price has fallen ...

AMP adds DNR portfolio

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
Dalton Nicol Reid's Australian Equities High Conviction portfolio has been added to the model portfolios on AMP's Personalised Portfolio Service. Dalton Nicol Reid's High Conviction portfolio, which is style neutral and holds between 15 and 25 Australian-listed ...

Northern Trust wins $1.8bn custody mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... agents. The firm writes insurance and reinsurance business in the US through Lloyd's syndicates and Beazley Insurance Company. Last year, the insurance firm underwrote gross insurance premiums of $1.8 billion. Richard Kelley, financial controller at ...

GSJBW infrastructure director resigns

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
Ben Hare, director of Goldman Sachs JBWere's infrastructure team, has resigned - prompting Standard & Poor's Fund Services to place the Goldman Sachs JBWere Australian Infrastructure Fund 'On Hold'. Hare has decided to move to a role outside of financial ...