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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... Whitehaven Coal and Billionaire Nathan Tinkler's Aston Resources have inked an agreement for a $5.1 billion merger is renewing interest in the coal industry, said Mr Elgar. "I think there is potential for a lot more M&A in the sector," he said. Resources ...

Reinsurance talent runs dry

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... New Zealand are now the most common new source of reinsurance talent with claims people, underwriters and analysts of interest. Reinsurance companies are also feeling the pinch from existing candidates which are driving up their asking salaries due to ...

New Count chief talks products

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... with a large number of members so far and they have asked about FirstChoice Wholesale platform, so there is a ton of interest in that so we will explore bringing that onto the approved product list (APL)." XPLAN will also continue being rolled out over ...

AUI winds up High Yield Mortgage Trust

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
Australian Unity Investments has begun winding up its High Yield Mortgage Trust following poorer than expected returns to investors in the current investment climate. Investors have already been reimbursed by 48 % of the fund's capital, with the remaining ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... pressure on bank margins. All of the big four banks have now said they will pass on the Reserve Bank of Australia's full interest rate cut of 25 basis points. "Banks are going to suffer today given the fact that their funding costs will be going up," ...

AMP Capital forges Japanese alliance

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... will be able to avail of its products. The deal gives Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB) a 15% minority interest in AMP Capital Holdings Limited (AMPCH), the parent company of the AMP Capital group of companies, for $425 million. MUTB ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... by Germany and undermined by an ECB warning there will be no big boost in rescue funding. Earlier the ECB cut its key interest rates for the eurozone, by a quarter of a percentage point to 1.00 per cent. After the rate cut, ECB chief Mario Draghi said ...

Sovereigns need not apply

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... need not apply. Following last night's governing council meeting, where the ECB announced another 25 bps reduction in interest rates to 1.0% as well as new measures to help Europe's banks "only", ECB President Draghi gave European pollies the one-finger ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... also got a boost. Shares in oil and gas producer AWE rose 5.5 cents, or 3.9 per cent, to $14.55 after it sold down its interest in the Tasmanian Bass Basin joint venture and announced it would pay a special dividend to shareholders. Overall though, the ...

AMP enhances super products

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... "popularity of these investment options within its personal superannuation products". AMP has also brought in monthly interest-paying term deposits for one, two, three and five year terms for selected retail and corporate super products where term deposits ...