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ASF appoints exec director

Australia's representative body for the securitisation industry, the Australian Securitisation Forum (ASF), has appointed Greg Medcraft as executive director. Prior to his appointment, Medcraft was the managing director and global head of securitisation ...

Agriculture drives biofuel investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
As agriculture continues to outperform, the push for sustainable biofuels will only increase investor appetite for investment opportunities in the sector. According to the Commonwealth Bank, "Australia's listed agribusiness sector has significantly ...

S&P hits back on CalPERS' claims

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
Standard & Poor's has returned fire at claims by CalPERS that the global rating house practiced a "dual rating system" which placed municipalities to a higher standard than corporate issuers. US pension fund giant CalPERS recently flagged the current ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
The Australian sharemarket was buoyed at noon by gains in local mining and energy shares after base metal and oil prices ended higher on international markets overnight. At 1213 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 15 points, or 0.28 per cent ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
Australian stocks were 2.8 per cent lower at noon on a shortened trading day as big falls in the price of oil and gold and weaker industrial metal prices hammered resources stocks. The financials sector also was weaker after speculation that top-three ...

Bear Stearns a 'reasonable risk': JPMorgan

JPMorgan Chase chief executive and chairman Jamie Dimon has said that the group is taking reasonable risk and have built in an appropriate margin for error in the proposed acquisition of Bear Stearns. Local banking stocks are down today after news of ...

Austock teams with Cantor

When financial services group Austock Group decided to look for a partner in the US, it went all the way to the top when it signed an alliance with financial services giant Cantor Fitzgerald. Austock now has a direct link to Wall Street when it paired ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Australian shares had surged by almost four per cent at noon led by banking stocks after the US Federal Reserve announced a $US200 billion liquidity injection into the financial sector overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had gained ...

CalPERS pumps cash into fund-of-funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
US pension giant California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has invested an extra $323.1 million last week for emerging managers. CalPERS has awarded $161.5 million each to emerging manager fund-of-funds manager Leading Edge Investment ...

Attack of the hedge clones

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
The global hedge fund industry is in for a major makeover as hedge fund replication tools or "clones" permeate through the sector to deliver returns at the fraction of traditional costs. Banking giant Goldman Sachs spearheaded the cloning phenomenon ...