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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... Billiton down 44 cents, or 1.39 per cent, at $31.22. Rio Tinto Ltd major shareholder Australian Foundation Investment Company Ltd (AFIC) has expressed concern over Chinalco's investment in the company ahead of an expected extension of a review into the ...

S&P launches carbon index

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... won't affect the sector weightings of the S&P 500 by more than 50 per cent are removed, will be taken off the index. Each company's carbon footprint is calculated as the company's annual greenhouse gas emissions assessment divided by annual revenue. ...

Babcock & Brown folds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
Babcock & Brown Limited has called in the administrators after its New Zealand investors rejected the company's plan to restructure some of its debt. In an ASX statement released this morning, Babcock & Brown has appointed Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as ...

CFS turns off the lights

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... out, please - Colonial First State is once again sponsoring Earth Hour as part of its commitment to being a sustainable company. CFS has been a key sponsor of the event since inception. As part of this year's Earth Hour exercise, the fund manager is ...

Aladdin combines FI and eq

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... Nigel Allfrey, managing director of BlackRock Solutions, former head of Impact Investing, the equities decision-making company that merged into BlackRock last year, said the 1990s was the decade of 'build-it-yourself systems', the next decade was when ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... marginally lower. At 0641 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 67 points at 3,314. In company news, Babcock and Brown Ltd will hold a noteholders general meeting. In Sydney, the Australian Telecommunications Users ...

NAB merges three wealth units

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... opportunities, particularly in servicing high net wealth (HNW) investors. Combining the three groups should also help improve the company's market share as a direct asset manager. Last year, NAB/MLC ranked as the 18th largest direct asset manager in ...

BT revamps wrap for equities

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... introduction of bulk trading, improvements to same-day trading capability, a more comprehensive package of market and company information, and new trading tools including watchlists, email alerts and a portfolio tracker service. "We've got a reasonable ...

Perennial and Hyperion sign UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... is what we already do'," said Tim Samway, institutional business director of Hyperion Asset Management. Samway said the company did not actively engaged companies through share voting, but the fund manager sold holdings when they disagree with the governance ...

Superpartners hires SAP, CSC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... expected Superpartners will move to the new system by July 2009. Greg Camm, chief executive for Superpartners, said that the Company has outgrown its current systems. "Migrating onto a new ERP system is absolutely essential for us to mitigate the costs ...