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Advisers snub commission-free ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... alternative to index funds. "We're seeing ETFs as a potential alternative, it's still early days and I don't think the liquidity is there yet and they're not built up in the minds of the general market to be something solid in the portfolio," he said. ...

AXA to list wholesale prop fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... distributions will continue. Mark Dutton, AXA Australia chief investment officer, said the firm was listing the fund to address liquidity concerns. "In the context of current market volatility, we see challenges ahead for the property sector which could ...

The saga continues

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... at 1.13 percent premium to 5-year US Treasuries - the highest in a decade - indicating the continued tightness in the liquidity. Financial market concerns also flared after JP Morgan release a report declaring that Lehman Brothers will post a $4 billion ...

US pension funds review securities lending

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... cent of major US pension funds and endowments are reviewing their securities lending programs after a number suffered liquidity issues during the worst of the credit crisis last year. This year financial services firm Greenwich Associates surveyed more ...

SmartStream on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... SmartStream, he said, was also looking for domain experts to deliver the firm's products and services, including cash and liquidity management, treasury confirmations and trade process management which will be rolled out locally in the coming months. ...

Econocrats pour cold water on mortgage agency

... funding channel." The Australian Securitisation Forum has proposed a series of measures, including the creation of a liquidity program to be run by the Australian Office of Financial Management; expansion of the Reserve Bank's RMBS repurchase arrangements ...

AusSuper drives MEB review

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... contracted by AustralianSuper, Cbus, HESTA and Host Plus in the wake of three new board appointments and an injection of liquidity. In May, Brian Pollock, Sandy Grant and Anne De Salis joined Bernie Fraser, Anna Booth, John Ries, managing director Anthony ...

RMBS market on brink of collapse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... government, through the Australian Office of Financial Management, intervene in the corporate bond market to provide liquidity in the same way the RBA intervenes to support banks. The proposal is similar to how the home mortgage market is funded in Canada ...

More Fed pump-priming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... higher overnight as an unexpectedly strong US employment report and an announcement by the US Federal Reserve of new liquidity provisions offset a rebound in the price of crude oil. ADP/Macroeconomic Advisors reported that private payrolls rose by 9,000 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... emergency borrowing program for Wall Street banks, which reassured the market that investment banks won't suffer from liquidity problems. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 186.13 points, or 1.63 per cent, to 11,583.69 and the Standard & Poor's ...