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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... Exchange dropped nearly 11 per cent after competitors Nasdaq OMX Group and ICE announced that they had withdrawn their hostile bid for the company. More than two shares fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Trading volume was 3.5 ...

ASIC draft moves FEX closer to reality

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... Securities and Investments Commission has released a new draft paper, further cementing the Financial and Energy Exchange (FEX) bid for a licence and the possibility of another ASX competitor. The FEX is an unlisted Australian public company that wants ...

Bloomberg Tradebook taps into research vein

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Bloomberg Tradebook has released new client-focused programs in a bid to build up its research offerings, with a focus on transparency and client access to information. Available to their Australian clients, the global agency broker has introduced an ...

ASX fines broker for bad behaviour

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
The Australian Stock Exchange has imposed a $75,000 fine on broking house IMC Pacific for behaviour that left disorderly markets in two securities, including QBE shares trading at less than half of one cent, it said yesterday. The stock exchange said ...

UBS expanding Asian fund business

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
Colin Lunn will join UBS to lead the bank's fund administration business development out of Hong Kong, as it bids to enhance its asset services offering in the Asia Pacific region. Lunn recently resigned from HSBC, where he was head of business development ...

Tech provider buys 25pc stake in paraplanning firm

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... per cent stake in a boutique paraplanning firm, offering advisers insurance Statements of Advice preparation for $350. In a bid to target the advice insurance business, AusParaplanning has released a 'simple life' system where the firm will provide back-to-back ...

Super trustees new cloud solution

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
Superannuation trustees have been given a new office solution in a bid to create more cost-effective processes, with the product given the stamp of approval by Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). The Trustee Office Solution, launched ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... cent. Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions. LONDON - European stock markets pushed higher amid a mega-takeover bid involving the dairy products industry, at the start of a shortened trading week after the long Easter holiday weekend. London's ...

Super funds turn to dark pools

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... order was at an advantage to the fund manager with a $9 million order on the ASX. "You're never going to find a $9 million bid in the market," he said. Macqueen said Liquidnet provided the necessary liquidity for bulk share trades that would otherwise ...

BlackRock provides advisers with super SMA

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... customised portfolio service, BlackRock. BlackRock has set a cap on administration fees for accounts larger than $2 million in a bid to attract higher-end retail investors as well as smaller ones. "Clients don't have the cost of establishing their own ...