Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1841 - 1850 of 2422 results for "Rule"

Equity Trustees calls for more from teeth behind RE reforms

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
Financial services firm Equity Trustees has welcomed the regulator's call for tighter rules around RE licensing and said any reforms must match the increasing complexities of fund products now available to investors. Harvey Kalman, head of funds management ...

More US investment banks close prop desks

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... Protection Act, which was passed by the US congress and signed into law by President Obama in July, incorporated the "Volcker Rule", which prohibits investment banks from engaging in proprietary trading and owning private equity or hedge funds.

Super tax breaks unaffordable: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Australia can't afford the rising and inequitable cost of superannuation tax concessions, said Treasury in its Red Book briefing to the returned ALP government. Each election, Treasury prepares a briefing folder for both the government should they be ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... for its biggest September gain in 71 years. Yes Virginia, if you've heard of statistical aberrations or exceptions to the rule, September 2010 is turning out to be just that. After last night's closing, my calculations show that the S&P 500 index would ...

Hedge fund adviser gets $2.7m fine

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... companies and shareholders by artificially depressing the market price shortly before the company prices its public offering." Rule 105 ensures that offering prices are set by natural forces of supply and demand. Carlson violated Rule 105 on four occasions ...

BT Wrap lifts fog on model portfolios

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Dealer groups can have a better understanding of how their financial advisers use 'model portfolios', cash and equities for their clients through key upgrades to BT Wrap this month. In a three-year project that's costing over $18 million, the team behind ...

Divorcing super

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
Divorce battle over self-managed super fund assets and art ownership within SMSFs raises tricky questions over what happens when only one of the splitting couple is a fund trustee. Many Australian couples are often unaware of the effect divorce can ...

SimCorp partners with AIM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010

Dob in a fraud: CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Notice a fraud activity at your super fund? Members of the US' largest public pension fund CalPERS can now complain about fraudsters following the launch of an ethics helpline. The helpline will enable the pension fund to receive tips, concerns and ...

ASIC targets MIS operators

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
MIS operators Frederick Leslie Hansen and William John Meywes from Global Rule have come under ASIC fire for managing an unregistered managed investment scheme. ASIC has obtained interim orders in the Supreme Court of Queensland in relation to Global ...