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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... cent. In other economic news, NAB releases its September quarter Australian residential property survey. In company news, Bank of Queensland issues its full year results, and NAB chief executive Cameron Clyne is scheduled to deliver a speech at a Trans-Tasman ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... while Rio Tinto had lost 41 cents to $59.84. Among the big four banks, ANZ was down 19 cents at $30.25 and National Australia Bank had lost nine cents to $34.10 while Westpac had gained two cents to $32.00 and Commonwealth Bank pushed 18 cents higher ...

Obama expected to pick Yellen as US Fed chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
US President Barack Obama will nominate Federal Reserve vice-chair Janet Yellen to be the next head of the US central bank, White House officials have said. If confirmed by the Democrat controlled US Senate, Yellen would become the first woman to hold ...

BTIM announces replacement for retiring chairman

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... the Audit and Risk Management Committee. He has more than 40 years' experience and held senior roles at the Commonwealth Bank and Lend Lease Limited. He is also currently a non-executive director of the Equigroup companies, Hastings Funds Management ...

AMP reveals new leadership team

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... Among the major banks, ANZ was down 6.5 cents at $30.39, while Westpac had dropped 10 cents to $32.13, and National Australia Bank had lost 14 cents to $34.26. Commonwealth Bank bucked the trend, pushing 37 cents higher to $71.12. Shares in Sims Metal ...

NZ Super CEO appointed deputy chair of IFSWF

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... Zealand Superannuation - the body which manages the New Zealand Superannuation Fund - Orr was deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Prior to that he was chief economist at Westpac Banking Corporation. "The IFSWF is now establishing a permanent ...

LGS enhances ESG credentials with Green Bond purchase

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Local Government Super (LGS) has said it has become the first Australian superannuation fund to invest in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) $250 million Green Bond. Funds raised through the Green Bond - which was issued on ...

Australia's second SBB hits $10m target

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Australia's second social benefit bond (SBB), issued by the Benevolent Society in partnership with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac, has closed after raising its target $10 million. The Benevolent Society SBB, which will help fund the ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... days that the US government is shut and counting down the days when the debt limit will be reached. The European Central Bank is too. In his Q&A session -- after the ECB Governing Council met and decided not to change monetary policy settings - president ...