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Bendigo offloads IOOF stake

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... has sold its 7.8% stake in wealth management firm IOOF Holdings, worth $110 million. In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) Bendigo and Adelaide Bank said the sale was conducted at $6.16 a share and is expected to improve its statutory ...

Folkestone forced to pay cash

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... sale agreement, Folkestone has elected to pay the entire consideration in cash," the company said in an Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) announcement yesterday. The PDF is an arm of Innovation Australia - an independent statutory body established ...

Brierley bids for wound-down scheme

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... he took control of the India Equities Fund in January. Shares in Mercantile rose 2.5% to 8.2 cents on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) yesterday and have gained 18% this year. Before the Adelaide Managed Funds Asset Banked Yield Trust was removed ...

Dunn loses bonus shares

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... performance hurdles, measured over a three year period, from 1 August 2009 to 31 July 2012. In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) yesterday, AMP said "These rights have lapsed as the performance hurdles were not met." In 2009 AMP ...

ASX calls on ASIC to regulate dark pools

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
The Australian Securities Exchange has called on the Australian Securities & Investments Commission to crack down on dark pool trades in Australia. Dark pools are orders to buy or sell shares that are executed outside the transparent ''lit'' markets. ...

Austock seeks liquidity for shareholders who want out

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... the underlying value of its various activities and capabilities," said Bessemer, in an announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The buy-back announcement comes after Mariner Corporation Limited withdrew a proposed takeover bid for Austock. ...

APA gets HDF books

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... from APA Group (APA) and an all-cash offer from Pipeline Partners Australia (PPA). In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) this morning, a subcommittee of independent directors of Hastings Funds Management Limited - acting as responsible ...

Regulators on post-Trio watch

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... learnt some lessons in the wake of the Trio fraud, and plans to be more proactive. While admitting that the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) could never guarantee that a similar scenario would not occur again, Peter Kell, ASIC commissioner ...

ASIC raises bar on OTC derivatives

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
... margin foreign exchange derivatives, will have to meet new financial requirements just released by ASIC. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) yesterday announced an increase in minimum net tangible asset (NTA) requirements for retail ...

ASIC cancel Morrison Carr AFSL

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
Australian Securities & Investments Commission has cancelled the Australian financial services and credit license of Morrison Carr Financial Services following a surveillance of the national planning business The sole director of Morrison Carr Financial ...