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HFA to re-open flagship fund

HFA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... managers were considerig suspending or closing their fund's redemption or application terms following the ban on short selling in 2008, according to a survey by the Australian arm of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) at the tim ...

Alternatives by any other name

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... will ultimately impact adoption." Absolute return, arbitrage strategies, derivative strategies, portable alpha, short selling and inverse strategies are just a few defined as alternative strategies in the report. Alternative energy, commodities, currency ...

Govt announces short selling disclosure timeline

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
The federal government expects to release short selling disclosure requirements in the next month, eight months after the government passed the Bill. A spokesperson for Chris Bowen, minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law ...

Boost allocation to top active managers: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... because the global financial crisis has made it difficult for investors to access capital, regulatory constraints on short selling has affected how stocks are correctly valued and higher transaction costs means many investors are locked out of these ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... roadshow seminar in Adelaide. On Monday, the Australian share market closed lower on the lifting of a ban on covered short selling of financial stocks and news of a North Korean underground atomic weapons test. Higher prices for base metals and oil boosted ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... contracts. CMC Markets analyst David Taylor said it was too early to assess the impact of the lifting of a ban on covered short selling of financial stocks. Mr Taylor said the financial sector had been down about one per cent approaching noon, with Macquarie ...

Mixed reaction on shorting ban lift

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... criticism, industry reactions have been mixed towards ASIC's announcement today that it had lifted the ban on covered short selling of financial securities. ASIC today lifted the ban which was first put in place on 21 September last year, following extreme ...

Plato receives $20m inflow

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... comes as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced it is keeping the ban on covered short selling of financial securities until the end of May. Yet Hamson said the ban isn't affecting the strategy's ability to perform. "Hopefully ...

Opposition slams govt short selling claims

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
The opposition has refuted Senator Nick Sherry's claim that the government action on short selling is in-line with the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) report, declaring the government misrepresented the report. Minister ...

The power of optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... form of an announcement by Representative Barney Frank that the uptick rule might be reinstated, which would limit short selling. Limits on short-selling have not stopped the market descending when it was instituted the first time, why would it work ...