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Certitude eyes liquidity boost

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Increased investment in managed accounts has enabled fund manager Certitude Global Investments to lift liquidity restrictions on its HFA Diversified Investments Fund (DIF) as of June 30 2011. Certitude will remove all remaining restrictions on the $350 ...

Merger gets Japan FSA thumbs up

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company (Dai-ichi Life) continues after Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA) gives the green light. The FSA has now approved the proposed acquisition of the remaining shares in TOWER Australia that Dai-ichi Life does not already ...

MLC property fund downgraded

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
MLC property fund has been downgraded by Standard & Poor's (S&P) Fund Services in light of key management departures last year. The MLC Global Property Securities Trust has been assigned a three star rating having been on hold since last year when manager ...

Rising star wins chair position

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... advisers to those new to the profession. Richard Klipin, chief executive of the AFA said the financial adviser was a shining light in the industry and had been a proud supporter of the association for the past four years. "She distinguished herself as ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... Airways and Virgin Blue Holdings each gained over 3.3 per cent on a $US3.67 drop in the price of New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in May, to $US106.25. Oil Search fell 21 cents, or 2.82 per cent, to $7.24, Santos lost 30 cents ...

Tyndall shifts gears on FI

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... people have one opinion for it and they should start looking at that opinion and saying, 'is this necessarily right?'" In light of global uncertainty Tyndall is positioning its portfolio with a slightly short-term duration, currently overweight in Commonwealth ...

Yikes the ECB hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... to do. And explained he did. "The adjustment of the current very accommodative monetary policy stance is warranted in the light of upside risks to price stability that we have identified in our economic analysis. While our monetary analysis indicates ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... points lower at 4,926, with 8,935 contracts traded. CMC Markets' chief market analyst, Ric Spooner, said volume was very light and the market would probably be flat for the rest of the trading session because its 16 day rally was difficult to sustain. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... committee showed few signs that the central bank plans on making changes to its stimulus program. Trading volume continued to be light. The minutes, from the Fed's meeting on March 15, confirmed that members of the central bank are split about whether ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had added 30.1 points, or 0.61 per cent, to 4,984.7 points. NEW YORK - A light trading day on Wall Street closed with slight gains for major stock indices. With oil prices reaching a 30-month high of $US108 ...