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US investors receive $312m from Fair Fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
Another week, another compensation resolution for US investors. This time the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is about to distribute $312 million through the Fair Fund created as part of the settlements with Qwest Communications International ...

Labour calls for fin services tax reforms

Chris Bowen, Labor's Shadow Assistant Treasurer, has said that a Labor Government would introduce tax reforms to help Australia become the centre of funds management in Asia. Speaking at the Investment & Financial Services Association's (IFSA) annual ...

GBST buys InfoComp for $56m

Listed accounting and transactions technology provider GBST has acquired wealth management software group InfoComp for $56 million, a move that effectively doubles its size and enables it to branch out to new markets. Under the deal, GBST will pay InfoComp ...

Centric engages in three-way merger

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
Centric Wealth today announced its merger with Melbourne-based advisory business Gaddie Metz Kahn and Sydney-based Myers Business Partners, giving it access to the Melbourne market and expanding its Sydney base. The merger will generate a new accounting ...

Wyllie launches new 'niche within a niche' company

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
Boutique investment company Wyllie Group has launched a new niche wholesale funds management division called Viburnum. The division will be 50 per cent owned by the company, with the balance of the equity held by the directors, including Viburnum chairman ...

State Street's 130/30 funds gain $10bn Edge

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
State Street Global Advisors' (SSgA) today announced their innovative 130/30 Edge funds had broken through the US$10 billion mark in assets under management. The world's first 130/30 product, first launched in December 2004 in Sydney, Australian Alpha ...

NZ investors hooked on high yield

... many meet the top standards. "The fact is that in Australia, only Rabobank Australia Ltd, of which RaboPlus.com.au is a division - has an AAA credit rating from Standard and Poor's," he said. The bank is due to commission a similar research surveying ...

Economic round-up: Raging bull

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
As the Australian stock market finishes what has been the best financial year of the past 20, a spectacular amount of cash has been floating around looking for somewhere to set up house. Investors have done exceptionally which has seen the bull market ...

InvestorWeb research for sale?

It is understood that the sale document for InvestorWeb, the managed funds research arm of IWL, is circulating in the market two months after IWL divested its financial software business VisiPlan. As reported previously by Financial Standard, InvestorWeb ...

Credit Suisse adds exec to Aust equities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2007
... has been spent with Credit Suisse, most recently in the equities research team in Credit Suisse's investment banking division "[Jenneke's] appointment adds considerable depth to our research capabilities and will further enhance our capacity to deliver ...