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ACCC gives go ahead to SGX-ASX deal

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... trading in, among other securities, ASX listed stocks. "Dark pools" give institutional investors the ability to trade large blocks of stock away from the exchange, without publicising their intentions to the rest of the market, theoretically allowing ...

Vanguard launches property ETF

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... and currently has over $2 billion in funds under management. "We are committed to providing investors low cost building blocks for portfolio construction. VAP represents a new way to purchase a yield-oriented diversifier that we have successfully offered ...

Legal risks pose social media stumbling blocks

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
Lack of clarity around the regulation of blogs and other social media networks is preventing many investment firms from making the big leap to Web 2.0 - but consumer usage of social media in their day-to-day life will force firms to come up with a solution. ...

Snowball stays on track

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... tracking that need for the new consumer, according to McDonald. "That is what we did with Officium. It gave us the building blocks in changing portfolios for the changing clients. In addition to this, we added administration systems or platforms that ...

ANZ drops ING brand for OnePath

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... "Following the move to full ownership of the ANZ-ING joint ventures in November 2009, we are now putting in place the building blocks to deliver more distinctive and integrated propositions to our customers and to support the growth of our wealth businesses," ...

Asian dark pools open to instos

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... Australia following a partnership with BlocSec. The deal will see Charles River clients use BlocSec to anonymously trade large blocks of Asian equities and efficiently support workflows. BlocSec, wholly owned by CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, was created ...

Liquidnet taps NZ market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... execution process and reducing their reliance on external brokers. "We bring together natural buyers and sellers of large blocks within a secure environment where they do not need to mask or break-up their wholesale volumes, or leak order flows to brokers," ...

Mining royalties should go into SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... explore is putting the royalties into a SWF. "A national sovereign wealth fund is a good idea, and we've started the building blocks of that, I think, with the future fund under the previous government and certainly I think there's a lot more we can ...

ACCC blocks NAB bid for AXA, backs AMP

MEDIA RELEASES  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has blocked the NAB bid, citing concerns about competition between retail investment platforms if NAB and AXA merged, but said it won't oppose the AMP bid. "At the heart of the ACCC's decisions ...

ASIC blocks Tankstream

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
ASIC has issued final stop orders on unsolicited offers made by Tankstream Funds Management to investors in 16 unlisted Centro MCS property syndicates. The orders follow Tankstream making a series of unsolicited offers for up to 50 per cent of the interests ...