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Halmarick joins CFS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... than 23 years, Halmarick was most recently managing director and co-head of Citigroup's Economic and Market Analysis department for Australia and New Zealand. David Dixon, chief investment officer, said, "As financial markets continue to be challenging ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... indicates that this already gloomy prediction for the US maybe revised even lower. And where the US goes... The US Commerce Department reported that US real GDP contracted at an annualised rate of 3.8 per cent in the last three months of 2008. This was ...

FIIG hires associate director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... former chairman of the AFMA's Debt Capital Markets Committee. Over the past six months, FIIG has expanded its research department, added to its fixed income professional team based in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, relaunched its online portal termdeposit.com.au ...

Vanguard CIO resigns

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... well," he said. Brennan is an 18-year veteran in the funds management industry. In his current role he heads a 30 person department responsible for monitoring the investment activities of 170 Vanguard funds and 28 external fund managers. Smith's resignation ...

ASIC extends short selling ban till March

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... discovery and that they're continuing to consult with industry," he said. IFSA will continue to work with the Treasury department and the regulator to ensure the ban is lifted as soon as possible, O'Shaughnessy said.

Read between the headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... of 6,000 people thrown into the unemployment scrapheap is indeed worrying. But dig deeper into BHP's human resources department and you'll find that it added 7,872 workers in 2008 alone (excluding contractors). Between 2006 and 2008, BHP has hired a ...

IFSA backs govt tax proposal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... makes sense to merge them for all concerned to minimise risk and capture efficiencies." MLC also backed the Treasury department's proposal. "MLC welcomes Senator Nick Sherry's Treasury discussion paper on the Government's measure to provide an optional ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... formally acknowledged by President-elect Obama and as indicated by the weekend's depressing payrolls report. The US Labor Department reported that the economy lost 2.6 million jobs in 2008 - the biggest one-year decline in employment since 1945. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... weakening. However, as the week progressed, the market appeared to be taking the bad news in stride - even Friday's Labor Department report that showed the nation lost more than a half a million jobs last month. The report raised hopes that the government ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... economy. The Dow Jones industrial average traded in a 568-point range as investors' shock dissipated over the Labor Department's report that employers slashed 533,000 jobs in November compared with the 320,00 that economists forecast. The market's advance ...