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Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... written by Joseph Stuber, published by Morningstar yesterday. The heading says it all: QE3 Can't Work: Understanding The Liquidity Trap". What's wrong with this picture? What's wrong with this picture is that they're already burying QE3 even before the ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... national regulators, with the power to police, penalise and even close banks. It would also gain powers to monitor banks' liquidity and demand they hold more capital to protect themselves against future losses." While Germany again does a Tony Abbott ...

Defensive investors may have traded risks

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... includes the right defensive components it should be able to weather interest rate falls or rises and provides enough liquidity to pay a steady pension income. Defensive investing should also contribute to maintaining 'real' - or after-inflation - purchasing ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... between one and three years. No ex ante quantitative limits are set on the size of Outright Monetary Transactions. The liquidity created through Outright Monetary Transactions will be fully sterilised.... it accepts the same (pari passu) treatment as ...

AFMA urges ASIC to focus on market risk

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... industry group representing participants in the securities markets. Lynch is calling on regulation - in response to dark liquidity concerns - to be justified only with a sound basis in evidence, and to be targeted at areas where there are risks of unacceptable ...

Shareholders force RE change

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... Industrial Fund. Denison would "dispose of non-core or underperforming assets to strengthen portfolio returns," said Burrows. Liquidity would be sought through a strategic review, rather than an ASX listing, he said. "This will pave the way for the opportunity ...

Income-seeking investors returning to secured credit

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... credit investments. He reminds investors that during the GFC - spurred by the bursting of the US housing bubble and liquidity squeeze - over 75% of investors in asset-backed securities were highly leveraged - with no requirement to hold significant capital ...

Further dark pool regulation premature: Fidessa

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... that fragmentation of the lit market has a major impact on transaction costs in the Australian market where volume and liquidity are low relative to larger markets such as the USA." Jenkins said that ASIC's approach has been healthy, given the percentage ...

Folkestone forced to pay cash

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... On Monday Austock said that after the sale it would buy back 20% of its shares to provide stakeholders with greater liquidity, in light of recent poor performance. Austock said that the shares that it buys back - which were worth 14 cents yesterday - ...

Austock seeks liquidity for shareholders who want out

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... its total shares on issue. Bill Bessemer, Austock Group chief executive offer, said that the buy-back was to provide liquidity for shareholders who wish to sell down their holding in Austock, and would provide directors with an important instrument for ...