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Super funds to resurrect ailing RMBS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... Poor's has waved aside a proposal for a commonwealth government guaranteed agency, AussieMac, to buy prime Australian RMBS in a bid to alleviate the dry up of local interest in the sector. According to S&P's head of capital markets Phillip Bayley, what ...

Algos trap rogue traders

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
... Services Authority (FSA), to incorporate "real time" fraud detection technologies into its market monitoring endeavours in a bid to detect fraud. The firm has also teamed up with specialist consultancy Detica to encode market knowledge into algorithms ...

Consultants review pay

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... you're right, you'll be rewarded but if you're not, you won't" should be taken into account by both consultants and funds in a bid to rejig the current payment system. "In any business, everyone talks about realigning remuneration structures to the service ...

Purist private equity adds value

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... "true" private equity fund model that contains zero exposure to leverage while tapping into PE opportunities overseas in a bid to beat the market downturn. "In a typical pattern under buy-out transactions, a company is bought with borrowed money, then ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... Britain's blue-chip index ended more than one per cent lower as economic concerns pulled down banking and mining shares but bid talk buoyed hotel and coffee-shop chain Whitbread. The FTSE 100 slipped 63.9 points, or 1.08 per cent at 5,831.6 to notch ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... - The New Zealand sharemarket shed 1.45 per cent in a poor day featuring the veto by government ministers of the Canadian bid to buy a stake in Auckland Airport. The NZSX-50 was down 51.17 points, or 1.45, to 3488.84 on turnover of $NZ145.7 million ($A125.08 ...

Intel eyes China tech

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
The investment arm of computing giant Intel has doubled the size of its newest China technology fund in a bid to cash in on the country's booming IT sector. Intel Capital said the new $535.7 million China technology fund will be invested in wireless ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... UK's top share index crossed the psychologically key 6,000-mark to hit its highest closing level in five weeks, helped by bid talk around British Energy and an upbeat Goldman Sachs note on miners. The FTSE 100 closed up 67.7 points, 1.14 per cent at ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... Composite Index was up 7.68 points, or 0.32 per cent, at 2,370.98. LONDON - Britain's FTSE 100 index rose one per cent, as bid talk boosted British Energy, but banks capped gains and surprisingly weak US jobs data signalled more cracks in a struggling ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after US stocks gained overnight. Resource stocks may decline after commodity prices fell overnight, however. At 0706 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index futures contract ...