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Future Fund defiant in face of airport legal proceedings

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013

AIA hoping to increase engagement through fitness

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... 2014. The AIA Vitality program is a joint venture between the group insurer and South Africa-based specialist insurer Discovery. Vitality will be sold through financial advisers and clients who undertake the program will need to complete a full health ...

Future Fund legally bound to protect docs in AustralianSuper feud

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... Fund has refused to provide these documents. "Accordingly AustralianSuper has brought an application seeking pre-trial discovery of the documents in the Victorian Supreme Court." The Future Fund is alleged to have breached a shareholders' agreement and ...

Super behemoths set to lock horns in Supreme Court

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... Fund has refused to provide these documents. "Accordingly AustralianSuper has brought an application seeking pre-trial discovery of the documents in the Victorian Supreme Court." The Future Fund issued a statement denying any wrongdoing in relation to ...

Future Fund accused of withholding docs in airport spat

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... Fund has refused to provide these documents. "Accordingly AustralianSuper has brought an application seeking pre-trial discovery of the documents in the Victorian Supreme Court." Earlier today, the Future Fund issued a statement denying any wrongdoing ...

Future Fund denies wrongdoing in Perth Airport deal

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
The Future Fund will oppose a preliminary discovery application lodged by AustralianSuper, denying any liability for the damages incurred by Australia's largest super fund during its acquisition of a shareholding in Perth Airport Development group. ...

Study shows dark pools benefit markets at low volumes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... capital market research's findings follow concerns from some traders that dark pools threaten the fairness of price discovery and market liquidity. Researchers analysed dark trading within the Canadian market before and after the introduction of minimum ...

Chi-X saved investors $215 million in first year

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... Chi-X's market share increases. The paper examines market efficiency by estimating changes in transaction costs and price discovery. The positive news comes despite the industry facing other significant cost pressures. "We have heard a lot from the trading ...

ASIC relaxes HFT and dark pool proposals

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... effectively behind closed doors without buyers or sellers knowing each others identity, are leading to irregularities in price discovery. "ASIC's taskforces on high-frequency trading and dark liquidity, and earlier work over the past two years, has seen ...

Study finds dark pools damage market quality

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
Dark pools are damaging overall price discovery and market quality in the US, according to new research by Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC). Researchers from the Australian independent academic centre for capital market research looked ...